Te curious case of DST

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:53:28 -0500 Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:04:13 -0800
> Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> 
> > Yes it is dual-booted with Windoze. However, I have Linux running on 
> > local time for that reason.
> 
> Doesn't matter. They both try to "fix" the clock the first time they
> are booted after the DST change. There is a flag you are supposed
> to be able to set to have it not do that, but over a period of
> many years of DST changes, no flag setting I made in any version of
> Windows seemed to have any effect.
> --

I agree, but in my case at least using Network Time Protocol (on Linux)
seems to override it (after a bit).

Ranjan
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