From: mike 

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:36:58 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills) wrote:

>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.


Correct.  On my BSD servers, when I boot into the BIOS, it shows me UTC time.

I am just wondering why Windows is so stupid as to have the hardware clock
need to know about local time and the subsequent whims of Congress.  Linux
and BSD were definitely far more prescient in their use of UTC (since
before there was an MS-DOS?).  Microsoft should have abandoned the outdated
DOS-based local time for the hardware clock years ago.

 /m

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