From: "Geo." 

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> 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.

No standard? What do you call it when at a minimum 99% of the PC's do it
the same way?

Name one OS that ran on an 8088 or a 286 that didn't use local time for the
clock. Xenix used local time, MSdos used local time, PCdos used local time.
DRdos used local time, Windows (every version) used local time, Geos used
local time, OS/2 used local time, BEos used local time. IBM shipped PC's
set to their local time.

I think a more proper way to look at it than "OS conventions" is
to just say "there's one in every crowd"..

Geo.

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