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to: Geo.
from: Mike N.
date: 2007-03-04 07:16:58
subject: Re: The DST fiasco

From: Mike N. 

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:26:48 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>NT4
>and W2K use GMT and only use the DST offset to display the time, all the
>recorded times are actually GMT and don't change.
>
>In that case you don't even need to change the time, just change your
>timezone for a few weeks.

   NT uses UTC internally, but the scheduler uses the local time.   So
you'd still need to manually intervene at 2:00 AM twice to keep the
scheduler on track if it was critical.   And for what?  Totally zippo
energy savings.

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