[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

[nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)]

nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes:

> Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Does this mean that twice a year when the clock changes I need to boot into 
>> MSWindows first to allow the time change to take place, or is there a Linux 
>> side fix for my dual boot set up?
>
> You can write something so that Linux changes the clock, but then be
> sure Windows is not set to change it.
>
> A better (read "more complicated") solution would involve some sync
> mechanism between both operating systems so that one can tell if the
> other already changed the clock.
>
> Unless windows now supports UTC clocks, you have to live either with
> this or with an always on winter clock on windows.

The last paragraph is not actually correct, sorry for that: many of you
will get weird hours on Windows if you set the clock to UTC. Here it is
just winter time because this is WEST and WET (Europe/Lisbon and
others), and our winter time happens to be UTC+0000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_Time

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Nuno J. Silva
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