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

In article , "Rich"  wrote:
>   The standard from the beginning of the PC is to use local time.  The
>better question is why do linux and the BSDs fail to follow the
>standard?

The OSes that evolved on the PC platform are the ones that fail to follow
the standard, which was set long before it came along. The *ix derivatives
follow the standard of the pre-PC *ix(en) that they evolved from. As such,
the PC platform is just another of the multiplatform hosts for *ix(en) and
should be treated the same.

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