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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, | >| | >| 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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