On 20 Sep 2000 13:03:22 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >It's not a hardware problem; the hardware clock just keeps a time. It has >no concept of time zones. I thought later on that I wrote this the wrong way. What I ment was: the guys who did the interface to the hardware. >It's a software problem; back when DOS was a >dead-simple operating system, Microsoft decided to interpret the time as >local time, probably because that was simpler and getting time zones right >is hard Which is precisely the shortsighted and wrong design decision I was talking about. >From a pure hardware point of view, letting a clock run on and on without regard of timezone and daylight saving time, is a lot simpler, than updating the hardware clock every time DST goes into or out of effect. So actually, these guys have, in their childish enthousiasm, chosen the hard way. It looks to me like Windows 2000 still keeps localtime in the hardware clock. Can you believe that? -- Bart.
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