Ubuntu affecting Windows XP clock

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 05:34:43AM +0800, John wrote:
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>>I _said_ assuming the clock's set to UTC is a Bad Idea!
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> And a discussion followed which resulted in ideas to fix it.
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>>Tim
>>U assumes the clock is set to UTC aka GMT. Somewhere, there's a tweak 
>>for it.
> 
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> There's something much better than a tweak; there's a bug filed with a
> strategy for a fix to make it to the right thing automatically.
> 
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332
> 


UTC is _never_ the right default for IA32.

It fails when Windows is installed second.
You don't allow for _other_ operating systems. Some people still use OS/2.
It doesn't allow for the fact that peecees are generally shipped with 
the clock set to local time (mine or manufacturers I can't be sure). 
I've never seen one set to UTC.


I can't add comments to bz, it won't talk to me.