[time-nuts] Win XP and NIST Time

[J. Forster]

I think the date for the DST time change were altered some years ago,
hence the Win SW messes up. I keep the 'puter clock on local time for
convenience, and switch because eBay does. I am only concerned with
roughly accurate local time.

Best,

-John

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> Recently, my 'puter clock has been resetting back an hour every so often.
> The auto-sync to time.NIST.gov is the timeserver it uses.
>
> Does that site change to Daylight time?
> Does the Windows time site change to aylight time?
>
> Tjanks,
>
> -John
> ===========================
>
> John,
>
> Internally, Windows (like UNIX systems) uses UTC, and that can be kept
> correct by e.g. the NTP software:
>
>   http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/setup.html
>
> Windows own timekeeping software is not as robust or accurate.  What you
> see
> displayed is determined by your Control Panel settings, and that should be
> under your control.  Summer/Winter time settings for a particular time
> zone
> are what determines how Windows internal UTC is presented to you.
>
> (If you dual-boot between Windows and UNIX, there are other issues.)
>
> Cheers,
> David
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