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On Thursday 19 April 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> On Thursday 19 April 2007, "Dan Cowsill" <danthehat@×××××.com> wrote |
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> about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Clock/Daylight Savings': |
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> > I dual boot windows on my system, and for some reason, windows |
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> > can't keep the time straight after the change. |
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> Windows expects the hardware clock to be in local time. (Open)NTPd |
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> uses UTC for all it's time values. You have to do some magic that I |
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> don't know to get Linux/BSD ntp daemons to play well with windows |
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> *and* properly correct for time. |
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Can that even be done without a kludge? |
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The only method I can think of would be to adjust the Windows time when |
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it boots, and to ensure Windows never updates the hardware clock. |
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My TZ is GMT +2, and on my own dual-boot machines I had to decide |
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whether *nix or Windows would have broken time settings. I'm happy to |
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report that the decision was really a no-brainer... |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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