Ubuntu affecting Windows XP clock

crispian thorne linuxmeister at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 05:21:17 UTC 2004


On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:05:45 -0500, Kevin Krumwiede <kjkrum at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:25:21 +0800
> John <dingo at coco2.arach.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Under what circumstances do you think UTC right? So far, I've seen
> > people say "not so," but I don't recall anyone adding "because."
> 
> The hardware clock should always be set to UTC.  It just makes things simpler, especially for DST changes.  Unfortunately, this is another example of Windows being fundamentally broken and everyone else having to work around it.
> 
> Krum
> 
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Well, I'm dual booting with another Debian distro (Libranet) that uses
local time- so it's off by 4 hours every time i boot back into it
after Ubuntu- most annoying!

Crispian Thorne
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