Re: Windows and UTC system time

2014-07-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 7/6/2014 3:20 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Sunday 06 July 2014 00.56:04 Bob Proulx wrote: >> It doesn't solve the problem because twice a year when DST >> comes and goes what usually happens is that Windows resets the clock >> and therefore it gets set forward and back twice. > > I seem to

Re: [SOLVED] Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > No worries. The fact that it is documented in rcS is historical at > > this point. It always used to be set in the /etc/default/rcS file. > > But in recent times they moved it to /etc/adjtime instead. > > However as far as I know there isn't a man pa

Re: Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-06 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Sunday 06 July 2014 00.56:04 Bob Proulx wrote: > It doesn't solve the problem because twice a year when DST > comes and goes what usually happens is that Windows resets the clock > and therefore it gets set forward and back twice. I seem to remeber that you could tell Windows (7?) not to care a

Re: Windows and UTC system time

2014-07-06 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Saturday 05 July 2014 22.39:57 Doug wrote: > Unfortunately, the fix that works in Windows 7 does not work in Windows 8. > Microsoft "fixed" it! > > --doug One more reason not to use 8. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: [SOLVED] Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/6/14, Bob Proulx wrote: > Nelson Green wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >> > But... Read the man page for rcS and then edit /etc/adjtime and set >> > LOCAL there. >> > >> > man rcS >> >> Boy do I feel dumb. I didn't even realize there was a man page for >> rcS. Thanks for pointing that out (I

Re: [SOLVED] Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Nelson Green wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > But... Read the man page for rcS and then edit /etc/adjtime and set > > LOCAL there. > > > > man rcS > > Boy do I feel dumb. I didn't even realize there was a man page for > rcS. Thanks for pointing that out (I really did start with man). No worries

Re: [SOLVED] Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Nelson Green
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Nelson Green wrote: > > 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 h

Re: Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Nelson Green wrote: > 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

Re: Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Nelson Green
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Thierry de Coulon 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 seco

Re: Windows and UTC system time

2014-07-05 Thread Doug
On 07/05/2014 04:01 PM, Thierry de Coulon 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 De

Re: Windows and UTC system time (was: no subject)

2014-07-05 Thread Thierry de Coulon
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 a