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Message-ID: <6e0cfd1d0801090154r75c9ca93v5361aea45fe41bb5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:54:11 +0100 From: "Martin Schwidefsky" <schwidefsky@...glemail.com> To: "Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>, "Tuomo Valkonen" <tuomov@....fi>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: The ext3 way of journalling On Jan 8, 2008 7:15 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@....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 I'm using this on my dual-boot machine at home because I that stupid Daylight Savings Time change twice a year really annoyed me. So far the only downside I found is that you have to remember that the time you enter in the BIOS has to be UTC. -- blue skies, Martin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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