[geeks] Win2K and DST

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Sun, 11 Mar 2007 @ 15:51 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:
>> No, since you're not supposed to be running anything "mission
>> critical" on an "unsupported platform", they would probably just
>> suggest shutting the machine down for two weeks, until we are inside
>> the "normal" DST window ;^)
> 
> That appears to be the way I'll have to handle my atomic watch.
> 
> Stupid thing didn't spring forward over the weekend.
> 
> Evidently it doesn't have a way of getting the zone information from the
> radio signal.

My wife's alarm clock has the same problem.  DST is hardcoded.  No patch
possible, and it doesn't appear to get a DST flag from the NIST time
signal it's synchronized to.


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