On 2012-06-06 11:52, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
John Haxby said:
It's not that long ago that someone thought we in the UK were on GMT all year round.
Microsoft still do (or at least seem to think that "GMT" means "UK legal time").
It seems fairly hard for the user to tell if their Windows computer is currently showing daylight savings time or not! E.g. on my XP virtual machine, the 'Date and Time Properties' dialog claims the current time zone is "GMT Standard Time" on the 'Date & Time' tab, displayed as "(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London" in the drop down list on the 'Time Zone' tab. In the registry, there is a sub-key called 'GMT Standard Time' that contains a registry value 'Dlt' set to "GMT Daylight Time". I don't know if that string registry value ever gets displayed by the system in normal operation. -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-