26 Apr
2013
26 Apr
'13
8:34 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:21:20PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
I don't know how true it is for you, but for me,
(3) half the other
clocks in the house _are_ computers, which _do_ get it right without
manual intervention - and on which I can install new DST rules whenever
I want.
Heh. My problem is that a lot of the computers are set up to multi-boot, and
*each* OS wants to be in charge of resetting the battery clock, so you get
another hour each time you switch OSes. Win7 in particular doesn't seem to
care whether you've disabled that. So twice a year, the computers go crazy.
So does the WWVB clock (another thing it'd be nice to have firmware source
for -- HOW could they not have tested DST days???). And yeah the TiVo either
needs to be set four times a year, or else all the programming has to be offset
by an hour for a few weeks (often easier than yanking the hard drive, unless
the clock has *also* gained 15 minutes, which keeps happening even though they
used an RTC chip with a digital trimmer -- one more thing it'd be nice to hack,
but actually that might be less hassle to do from the hardware side).
John Wilson
D Bit