On 2012-06-06 12:46, Ian Abbott wrote:
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"). [snip] 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.
It's been pointed out to me that XP systems set to this zone will show "GMT Daylight Time" and in fact I have XP systems showing that. The XP system that showed "GMT Standard Time" was only recently installed and hasn't seen any DST transitions yet, although that is no excuse for showing the wrong DST information. It might have been something to do installing it in a virtual machine running under Linux, so if that's the reason for it showing the wrong DST information, I apologize to Microsoft. (I don't have the time or inclination to install XP on real hardware at the moment to check.) I also noticed that Windows 7 displays the same zone name to the user as "(UTC) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London" with a note underneath to say that Daylight Savings is in effect. Perhaps the use of "UTC" to mean "legal time in Eire, Scotland, Portugal and England" is even more confusing than "GMT"! -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-