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Re: how to change date of system



On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530
Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead
> of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC
> alarm enabled.

It's supposed to make it easier to deal with daylight saving times.
Other than that, it seems to make sense to refer to GMT/UTC as a
common, invariable source for time information and to go from there:
What is the reason for having GMT/UTC? How do you know what time it is
when every clock shows a different time? :)


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