NetBSD Problem Report #49407

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From: andrew.cagney@gmail.com
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Subject: "5.9. System time" should mention that windows can be configured to use UTC
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>Number:         49407
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       "5.9. System time" should mention that windows can be configured to use UTC
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          closed
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 21 03:10:01 +0000 2014
>Closed-Date:    Fri Nov 21 05:58:22 +0000 2014
>Last-Modified:  Fri Nov 21 18:35:00 +0000 2014
>Originator:     Andrew Cagney
>Release:        6.x I'm guessing - its the online documenation
>Organization:
>Environment:
n/a
>Description:
Section 5.9 (System time) explains how to get NetBSD to work with a real-time clock set to local time.

It should also document that, as an alternative, Windows 7+ can be configured to work with the real-time clock set to UTC.

To quote http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2922223
"apply a DWORD type registry key that is named RealTimeIsUniversal in the following path and set the value to 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation"

KB article is useful since it also shows Microsoft fixing a bug related to this feature.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
"apply a DWORD type registry key that is named RealTimeIsUniversal in the following path and set the value to 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation"

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: "Soren Jacobsen" <snj@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/49407 CVS commit: htdocs/docs/guide/en
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:50:59 +0000

 Module Name:	htdocs
 Committed By:	snj
 Date:		Fri Nov 21 05:50:59 UTC 2014

 Modified Files:
 	htdocs/docs/guide/en: chap-boot.xml

 Log Message:
 Mention that Windows can deal with the RTC being in UTC these days.
 Noted by Andrew Cagney in PR install/49407.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.19 -r1.20 htdocs/docs/guide/en/chap-boot.xml

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: snj@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:58:22 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
I made mention of this in the Guide. You should see it within a few hours
when the next sync happens.


From: Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, 
	snj@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/49407 ("5.9. System time" should mention that windows can
 be configured to use UTC)
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:31:12 -0500

 Thanks!

 BTW, I'm not sure if the documentation needs to mention:
   If you do this, you should also disable Internet Time Update in Windows.
 my very up-to-date Windows 7 machine seems to be happily using
 internet time (even dug itself out of a hole when I switched on UTC
 on).  Perhaps something like:
   If you do this, you should ensure that your system has all related
 fixes applied.

 Also, if you hadn't seen it, here's a better reference:
 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html
 Putting Windows into UTC is potentially the preferred option :-)

 either way, thanks again

 On 21 November 2014 00:58,  <snj@netbsd.org> wrote:
 > Synopsis: "5.9. System time" should mention that windows can be configured to use UTC
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: snj@NetBSD.org
 > State-Changed-When: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:58:22 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > I made mention of this in the Guide. You should see it within a few hours
 > when the next sync happens.
 >
 >
 >

>Unformatted:

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