Subject: Re: proposal for changes to todr interface
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/07/2006 18:10:34
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:21:17PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Say you really intelligently notice the DST transition has happened
> and warp rtc_offset and the clock so windows will be "happy". As soon
> as you boot Windows, it will warp the clock *again*. You need to know
> if you've booted Windows between NetBSD boots to know if rtc_offset
> should be adjusted! And, of course, you can't know!

What does happen if you have more instllations of Windows on the same
machine? Are they really so dumb?

Pavel