Richard Hoskins <detach@adelphia.net> writes: > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> writes: > >> 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. > > I remember the last time I had to dual boot with a Microsoft OS, UTC > wasn't even an option. GMT was as close as I could get, which turned > around and bit me in the ass when Summer Time came into affect. I I thought that GMT was "the same" as UTC? (At least within an accuracy of 1 second). good times, Vineet
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