[geeks] Windows and timezones

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Does anyone know if there is a patch/hack/whatever to make Windows use a
real timezone, keeping the system clock in UTC?

I occasionally boot Windows and use some WWW software that stores the
local time in a database.

Now my database is all screwed up because Windows posts times 4-5 hours
ahead due to its use of local time instead of a timezone.

I also found out that it affects all kinds of other things like Google
(shared data between sessions on different machines), etc.

In the past I've ignore this problem, but now that I find it is
affecting real work, I'd like to find a fix for it.

Any ideas or pointers?


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