Re: RTC and (old) Windows [was: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...]

2023-12-21 Thread David Christensen
On 12/21/23 04:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I used to work in a shop Back Then (TM) (roughly Windows 3.1). We did C programs for a living and had a mix of Windows boxes and Linux boxes. Windows boxes were "naive" and had local time. We had a time zone with summer and winter time. On time transi

RTC and (old) Windows [was: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...]

2023-12-21 Thread tomas
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 07:15:12AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > Again, there isn't any agency here. The RTC is just a resource that > the system can use, once per boot, to get things started. It could > be set correctly, or incorrectly. It could be set to local time, as > was common whe