On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 03:50:54PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:08:19 +0300 > Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote: > > Hello Anssi, > > >Since Windows 7 it's possible to tell Windows that RTC is UTC. IMO, > >setting RTC to UTC time is the right thing to do, messing around with > > Good to know(1). O/P doesn't state which version of Windows they're > using, so I'll make no further assumptions. > > >Debian settings to accommodate Windows is not. > > I agree, but what with Microsoft and Windows being (almost) ubiquitous, [...] If you have been paying attention, you'd know why /in this case/ an UTC clock makes just a lot of sense. BTW, many moons ago (as of Windows 3.1, go figure), I was part of a programming shop. Our boxes had dual boot, Linux and Windows. To avoid all that stupid problems: among them files "magically" changing their time stamp at each DST transition -- yes, really! imagine the fun with Makefiles -- we set Windows to a time zone on the Greenwich meridian and with no DST. I think it was Liberia or something. We lived with Windows displaying a funny time. But hey. Industry standard. Cheers -- t
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