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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
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