[haiku-development] Time preps (moved from commits list)
- From: scottmc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 16:39:12 +0000
+1 for calling it UTC instead of GMT
+1 for defaulting to UTC instead of local time.
-scottmc
On Jun 8, 2011 9:24 AM, "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This discussion should probably be moved to the development mailing
> list, but nonetheless I've been doing more research and the use of
> local time in the BIOS has many bad qualities, and a lot of people
> have been asking Microsoft to fix this, which of course they have been
> reluctant to do. Here is one page on that topic:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html
>
> Given this and the fact that our user base is much more likely to be
> dual-booting with Linux or other systems which use a UTC-based
> real-time clock, maybe the Haiku default should also be that?
>
> In addition I think the label which says GMT should probably be changed to
UTC.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
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