From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 4 21:14:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2EE1531A for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 21:14:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA01138; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:42:21 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA07291; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:42:20 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990405134220.Z2142@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 13:42:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: gregm@netidea.com, Rick Hamell Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Timezone question References: <19990405095153.I2142@lemis.com> <199904050402.VAA24087@everest.netidea.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199904050402.VAA24087@everest.netidea.com>; from gregm@netidea.com on Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 09:05:36PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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