F8 & F9: Date & Time

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Todd Denniston wrote:
>> F9: /etc/adjtime:
>> ============
>> 0.071197 1217706790 0.000000
>> 1217706790
>> UTC
> 
> To work with MS, the last line of /etc/adjtime is REQUIRED to be LOCAL
> 
There is a registry change, at least for XP, that allows the clock 
to be set to UTC, and have the time displayed in local time. So far, 
I have not had any problems with it... There is a warning on the 
site that some programs may have trouble with it.

http://miknight.blogspot.com/2006/06/storing-system-time-in-utc-in-windows.html

> The magic key is at:
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\RealTimeIsUniversal
> It's a DWORD that needs to be set to 1 (I had to create it). Of
> course, you need to reboot afterwards.
> 
> There have been reports of side-effects, but so far it seems OK for me.

Mikkel
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