On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:15:00AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
| On 2002.06.07 01:16 Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| >On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:51:16AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
| >| Hello Pietro Cagnoni <pcagnoni@mclink.net>,
| >|
| >| What is the advantage to keep the clock on GMT?
| >
| >Suppose the machine moves and is now in a new timezone. Also suppose
| >you're running a legacy OS (eg MS-DOS or MS-Windows) and you now want
| >the clock to show the correct local time.
...
| Goog point, Derek. I'll look into fixing the BIOS setting next time I
| reboot (which hopefully won't be awhile, but with these damned midwest
| t-storms, you never can tell).
Do note that if the BIOS must be shared with one of the
above-mentioned legacy OSes, you will either need to set it to local
time or live with a borked clock in that OS. (on the company laptop I
chose the latter -- windows shows UTC not localtime in the system
tray, and I laugh at its idiocy :-))
HAND,
-D
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