Sunday, March 10, 2013

Daylight Saving Time and dual-boot computers

If you have a dual-boot setup on your computer, and your time changed during the night to Daylight Saving Time, you may find that one of the two operating systems has changed its time by two hours instead of one. 

I have a theory about that. Whichever operating system changes the system time first gets it correct. But then the second operating system looks at that system time, and adds another hour to it, making that one an hour too much.

So if you have a dual-boot setup on your computer, check the time on both of the operating systems to verify that it is correct. To change the time, click on the time in the lower right of your desktop, and choose "Change date and time settings".

And as for Daylight Saving Time, as the Old Indian said, " Only the government would believe that you can cut a foot off the top of a blanket, and sew that onto the bottom of the blanket, and have a longer blanket."

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