"Alan Perry" wrote on 2000-12-09 07:55 UTC:
What operating systems use local time as their basic clock these days? Just wondering.
Any IBM PC compatible machine that runs under at least one Microsoft OS has to keep the battery-backed CMOS clock chip in local time, because unlike most other operating systems (e.g., any Unix flavour), none of Microsoft's CMOS clock drivers have a UTC option. Rather disappointing and every year an unneeded hassle after DST switches on multi-OS machines. From discussions with Microsoft staff, I have to conclude that no-one within Microsoft has even understood the problem. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>