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Re: Daylight savings time ended in Europe
- To: Kristoffer Lawson <setok@fishpool.com>
- Subject: Re: Daylight savings time ended in Europe
- From: Michael Schwingen <rincewind@tubul.dascon.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:08:26 +0100
- Cc: MiNT list <mint@atari.archive.umich.edu>
- In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981028033633.2211F-100000@gfanrend.fishpool.com>; from Kristoffer Lawson on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:38:09AM +0200
- References: <19981028015646.64022@stud.uni-sb.de> <Pine.LNX.3.96.981028033633.2211F-100000@gfanrend.fishpool.com>
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:38:09AM +0200, Kristoffer Lawson wrote:
> Windows has a bug concerning that, IIRC. None of the UNIX machines
> here had problems (surprising enough) ;-)
No wonder - Unix has the RTC running in GMT and does the conversion on the
fly.
> The system clock is most likely in GMT even on Windows (at least NT). Just
> the GMT->local conversions were apparently buggy. If you had waited an
> hour I think it would've resolved.
Definitely not on Win95 - my PCs clock *is* set to GMT (which works fine
under Linux) - however, in Win95 the clock is assumed to be local time,
which gives a difference of 1-2 hours - well, I can live with that.
cu
Michael
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