[time-nuts] UTC in Windows, and dual-booting

[J. Forster]

I was responding to a previous post bashing MS which passes for sport
among UNIX, LINUX, and Mac fans:

"There's a discussion about why MS is all wrong on this..."

They are as annoying, IMO, as people who ring your door bell and try and
convince you of THEIR way to salvation.

-John

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> Hi John,
>
> What does your fascinating little story have to do with dual-booting clock
> troubles?
>
> M$ bashing/hailing can be done off list, IMHO.
>
> --
>
>    Björn
>
>> To hear an Apple or a UNIX disciple tell it, Microsoft never does
>> anything
>> right. The fact is, Windows made personal computing bloom.
>>
>> I bought a Mac and a PC clone w/in a few weeks of each other in the
>> early
>> 90s. The PC clone cost under $2000, the Mac over $5000. The Mac hardware
>> died at least three times and with every change in the Mac OS, stuff
>> would
>> cease to work. The PC is still running and still runs some legacy DOS
>> apps.
>>
>> Case closed, IMO.
>>
>> -John
>>
>> =============
>>
>>> Haven't seen this discussed here, but I think it's interesting. Seems
>>> Windows uses local time, whereas MacOSX and Linux, as well as other
>>> OSes use Posix/UTC. There's a discussion about why MS is all wrong on
>>> this, with a possible Win fix using regedit....
>>>
>>> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Dick Moore
>>
>>
>>
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