Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2008 07:25:56 -0500 | | From | Theodore Tso <> | | Subject | Re: The ext3 way of journalling |
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:54:11AM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > On Jan 8, 2008 7:15 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > > That will fix the this issue. The problem you are facing is that you > > have your hardware clock set to ticking localtime, instead of GMT. > > Windows ticks localtime, which is a mistake carried over from the > > 1970's and MS-DOS. Ticking localtime has all sorts of problems, among > > which is if you reboot around the transition between Summer Time (or > > Daylight Savings Time, depending on your contry) and normal time, the > > OS has no idea whether the DST adjustment has been applied or not. > > Actually you can force Windows to accept a hardware clock in UTC: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl/TimeZoneInformation/RealTimeIsUniversal
Oh, so cool!!! Do you know off hand what version of Windows started honoring that registry setting?
And what do you set that registry value to? Just a boolean "true"?
Now, how to convince Ubuntu to put this in their FAQ so I stop having their ahhh, less than clueful dual-booting Windows users who happen to live in Europe stop submitting bugs on this issue.... - Ted
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