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At some point hitherto, Rob Ransbottom hath spake thusly:
> On 19 Sep 2002, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > usually the way to solve this problem is to keep the system
> > clock in "local" time and set linux to know that the system is
> > in local, not utc, time.
> 
> For no compelling reason I've always wanted to set my clocks to
> UTC.

There *IS* a compelling reason: this is the right way to deal with
time on a Unix system.  Doing so means you'll never need to change
your system clock for DST changes, provided you've selected the
correct time zone for your computer.  This is, largely, the point...

Unfortunately...

> Can the various Window OS deal with this?

No.  This is just yet another way Microsoft OSes are braindead.  You
must set the system clock to your local time.  When DST changes occur,
they actually change the hardware clock, which is not compatible with
setting your system time to GMT.  

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