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Article #54421Re: Daylight Savings System Clock
From: Nick Andrew
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 00:00
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In <636580$8sg@padre.unico.com.au> david@unico.com.au (David Goh) writes: >*nodnod* This is correct... *but* the reason why the machine had to be >on when the time changed over for him, is that he's probably got his >CMOS clock storing localtime, rather than UTC (GMT). I wondered if this was the case (and why anybody would want to do that :-)) but still couldn't think of a scenario where it would matter that the machine was not actually operating at the transition point. >If that's the case, when he next reboots, the time will probably be out >of sync, unless he's writing out current time to the CMOS clock... Unless of course he's setting the time manually ... Nick. -- Kralizec / Zeta Microcomputer Software Fax: +61-2-9233-6545 Voice: 9837-1397 G.P.O. Box 3400, Sydney NSW 1043 http://www.zeta.org.au/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,eed5cd6c346d6c18 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) Subject: Re: Daylight Savings System Clock Date: 1997/10/29 Message-ID: <636qru$o0j$1@gidora.kralizec.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 285736437 References: <63184n$k92$1@news.mel.aone.net.au> <631ept$dhl$1@gidora.kralizec.net.au> <633frp$iki$2@wyrm.its.uow.edu.au> <635op7$8e5$1@gidora.kralizec.net.au> <636580$8sg@padre.unico.com.au> Organization: Kralizec Internet, http://www.zeta.org.au/ Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux