Ubuntu affecting Windows XP clock

[Timothy Van Meir]

For what it's worth, I've dual-booted Windows with two other Linux
distributions, Suse and Xandros.  Neither of them messed up the
Windows clock, I assume (based on this thread) because they put the
local time in the computer's internal clock.

I don't know if ubuntu is intended to be friendly to Linux newbies. 
If it is, you should keep in mind that many such newbies will be
dual-booting with Windows.  Clock mixups are likely to be a confusing
turn-off for such people.

Tim



On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:42:26 +0100, Steve McIntyre <steve at einval.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:35:18PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >
> >For the same reasons as below: MS-DOS compatibility. I've even heard
> >Microsoft people admit that putting local time in the RTC is stupid,
> >but they're apparently bound forever to do the wrong thing for
> >backwards compatibility.
> 
> There's a good discussion of this online at msdn, BTW:
> 
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/02/224672.aspx
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