Aneurin Price wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> lee wrote: >>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 >>> Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead >>>> of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC >>>> alarm enabled. >>> It's supposed to make it easier to deal with daylight saving times. >> How? >> >> I have set my BIOS clock to local time mainly because I run a dual boot >> machine (Windows and Linux). For me, day light saving time changes occur >> seamlessly (Debian Testing, but I don't it matters which distro is being >> used). >> > > How do you prevent both Linux and Windows from attempting to correct the time > for DST, and ending up an hour out? Do you just tell one of them not to change > the clock, and live with it being wrong until you boot into the other one?
Interesting. I haven't had this situation yet, AFAIR. I will try to note what happens when I boot in to Windows next (haven't done that since the last DST change). -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
