On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Thierry de Coulon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 July 2014 21.38:46 Nelson Green wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > > > This morning I had the mis-fortune of creating a dual-boot system with > > Debian on > > a machine that already had windows installed on. I installed a second > hard > > drive, installed Debian, and almost everything works. But I apparently > told > > the > > installer that the system clock is set to UTC, when it is not (because > > windows > > has no real concept of time). > > That's not true. Actually it is. As a former windows system administrator, I can assure you that micro$oft is a lot more interested in bringing the world to their way of thinking than following well-designed, logical practices and standards. Just one of the many reasons I abandoned that quagmire of a system. > For some reason M$ makes it very complicated, but I have a > dual boot system and I have Windows 7 running with system clock set at UTC. > > Look on the web and you should find how. I find it's a lot better than to > run > Linux in local time, as far as I am concerned. > Thanks Thierry, but I am afraid I have to leave the windows installation alone. Fortunately I rarely have to mess with windows, and as a general rule I don't lower my standards to theirs, but in this case I have no choice, at least until we can eliminate windows from the equation completely. > > Thierry > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
