Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:28:21 +0000 | From | Steve Underwood <> | Subject | Re: very odd hardware clock behavior |
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Guest section DW wrote:
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> (On the one hand, nobody is in a half hour time zone. > On the other hand, last I was in Nepal the time difference > with China and India was an integral number of hours plus/minus > a quarter of an hour. On the third hand, still other time differences, > like 20 minutes, occur in sufficiently obscure places. This += 30 > does not belong in the kernel - as this entire 11 minute business > does not belong in the kernel.)
Eh? The whole of India is 5 1/2 ahead of GMT (India Standard Time - IST). The whole of China is 8 hours ahead of GMT (China Standard Time - CST). I don't know where you saw odd 1/4 hours. Maybe that's actually a Nepal oddity.
With an appreciation of time zones like that you should work for Microsoft. A good 20% of the time zones in Windows are wrong, and inconsistent between versions.
Steve
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