Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:42:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: gregm@netidea.com, Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Timezone question Message-ID: <19990405134220.Z2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199904050402.VAA24087@everest.netidea.com>; from gregm@netidea.com on Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 09:05:36PM -0700 References: <19990405095153.I2142@lemis.com> <Pine.WNT.3.95.990404172706.-3978117B-100000@bb-b1-11a> <199904050402.VAA24087@everest.netidea.com>
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On Sunday, 4 April 1999 at 21:05:36 -0700, gregm@netidea.com wrote: >>>> FWIW, both W95 & NT also both showed the correct time (probably >>>> because the RTC was correct & both Winblows had "Automatically >>>> adjust for DST" *unchecked*) although 95 correctly thinks the TZ >>>> is GMT, Daylight Saving but NT thinks it is just GMT. >>> >>> You'd think they'd get these things right, wouldn't you? >> >> Really Greg... is this a trick question? :) I wouldn't expect >> anybody from Microsoft to even know how to turn on a computer... because >> that's a hardware problem....:) > > I've got to say it at the risk of going down in flames. I'm new to > FreeBSD and love it. I'm studying C and TCL/TK. (Iove Greg Blacks > comments, vitriol and all) and spend all my extreneous computer > time on my FreeeBSD machine. BUT... I also have a recording > studio and run three MSWin machines. One sound 'card' is full > duplex with 10 ins simultaneous with 8 outs. Another accepts > S/PDIF from the aformentioned card. The third machine runs > sampling software (SSPro ... if you sample you'll love it) and much > as I would like to do it all in UNIX I'm not aware of any way I could > (I'd love to hear I'm wrong -- I won't invest another fortune just yet). > I know a lot of MS's success is due to their dominance and hence > support, but still it is there. Anyway ... blah .. blah.. just thought I'd > throw that bug in your ear and flame on Johnny, but really ... it's > not all bad! Well, this fits in pretty well with what I wrote in this month's Daemon News: http://www.daemonnews.org/199904/d-advocate.html. Obviously Microsoft isn't *that* bad; I just keep being surprised about what obvious bugs still exist in the world's most expensive software. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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