TZ

Simon Bowring pmmail@rpglink.com
Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:09:46 +0000 (GMT)


On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:25:16 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

>This combination will at least allow you to set your RTC properly
>(i.e. to universal time) and have his 32-bit TIME.EXE and DATE.EXE
>properly apply your TZ setting to the RTC to calculate and display
>local time.

No, no, no, no, NO!  OS/2 and Windows and DOS works in LOCAL
TIME, NOT UTC/GMT!!!!!

>Unfortunately though, this means most other OS/2 programs (such as
>OD's control center) will display universal time (since they "forget"
>to apply the TZ setting to it) instead of local time.
AArrgghh!!! OD's control center clock is correct!

Simon B