From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo."
 wrote:
> ... What I'm saying is that for every OS that
>runs on the PC, it has to deal with the PC standard.

Think about it. There is no "PC Standard". There are several
"OS conventions". It's the requirements of the OS that determines
whether the PC clock is set to local time or GMT/UTC. There's nothing in
the PC hardware that requires using one or the other.

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