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Re: Hardware clock, and getting it set to UTC?



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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:13:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> BTW, it's "fun" to set the hardware clock to UTC on a dual-boot
> Debian-Windows system.  Windows doesn't "get it" and thus displays UTC
> as if it was EST.  Just remember never to set the clock to local time
> while Windows is running, or then Debian will have an incorrect notion
> of what the current UTC time is.

I recall in high school when we thought to try dual booting one of the
machines, we used to get some wicked DST issues unless Windows
timezone was set to UTC.  I don't use Windows often enough to know if
this was isolated to just us or not.

- -- 
 .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :'  :    
`. `'`     proud Debian admin and user
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