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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

L18L thanks. Something must have gone bad in your sig this time.
It looked good before you did the latest change

disciple · Posted: Mon 05 Sep 2011, 06:37 Post subject:

(Oh... I was too slow to post Smile

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disciple · Posted: Mon 05 Sep 2011, 06:41 Post subject:

Oh, there is supposed to be a way to make Windows work with a BIOS clock in UTC... but of course it doesn't actually work reliably.
http://weblogs.asp.net/dfindley/archive/2006/06/20/Set-hardware-clock-to-UTC-on-Windows-_2800_or-how-to-make-the-clock-work-on-a-Mac-Book-Pro_2900_.aspx

L18L · Posted: Mon 05 Sep 2011, 06:50 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

Thanks for all your effort. I guess I have some early dementia or something. Anyway I am now in Slacko instead of Snow puppy.

I set time but have no idea if it is hardware being forced by software or vice versa. I don't mind to change the clock two times a year. I do that with all the other ones I have,

the important thing is that some software get hickups when files are in the future one hour.

Mercedes that was what you found out was it not?

disciple · Posted: Mon 05 Sep 2011, 07:37 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

Ooops sorry me so confused.

Now Finally I have found the text that show that you two agree.

tasmod · Posted: Mon 05 Sep 2011, 10:35 Post subject:

If you set your Hardware Clock to UTC then that's OK it's perfectly fine.

Then just for completeness in Puppy set your Locale (Reboot). Then the tray clock etc will be correct local time and will change with DST.

You NEED a reboot if you set the Locale. This is to make it stick.

BUT be aware that setting the Hardware Clock to UTC without setting the Locale will cause the confusion we started with.

That is also the reason why on first boot of a new install the clock needs setting when the Hardware Clock is set UTC.

It's all about choice and not really any standard or convention.

EXCEPT Windows Laughing

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

I read and read. I guess it will clear up by practice. Sooner or later I notice the time is or are wrong and then I have to do some testing again on how to set things up. As it is now it seems to works regardless of if I am in Lupu, Slacko, Spup, Dpup, Snow, or whatever.

I should test with Slitaz and TinyCore too but I am too lazy just now.

Bruce B · Posted: Mon 05 Sep 2011, 13:38 Post subject:

Just to be perfectly clear, I don't fault Barry on any of this. Maybe he got things backward and maybe not. Maybe things have changed. And maybe it was confused by some files he was using to make things right.

But there is only so much time a person can dedicate to something of a fairly trivial nature and I dedicated an enormous amount of time to it. Barry could have put out a new distro in the time I spent.

Moreover, my time was spent making what I called a three clock system, which is an order of magnitude more complex because the the clocks have to work right with the TZ and all work together.

It would be interesting I think if someone went through everything Puppy does with the clocks and the TZ to give us the adjusted time.

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disciple · Posted: Fri 16 Sep 2011, 06:37 Post subject:

Have you mentioned on those pages that they will cause that problem?

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disciple · Posted: Fri 16 Sep 2011, 19:02 Post subject: