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to: Don Hills
from: Geo.
date: 2007-03-08 20:26:18
subject: Re: linux/bsd and clock standards

From: "Geo." 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:Qg97FtgaXutA092yn{at}attglobal.net...
> In article , "Geo."
 wrote:
>>
>>I never claimed the PC was the largest computer in the world.
>
> You claimed there were more of them than any other type.
> I wasn't arguing that, just questioning the logic that makes this the
> deciding factor in whether the clocks should be set to local time or GMT.

I understand what you are saying but I see no problem with PC's having
their own standard which is different from Mainframes or Mini's. You have
bigendian and littleendian right? What I'm saying is that for every OS that
runs on the PC, it has to deal with the PC standard.

Geo.

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