Plea to Microsoft to allow RTC=UTC

[Antoine Leca]

Hi Markus,

Markus Kuhn ha escrit:
> 
> I have managed to get someone inside Microsoft interested in the
> problems of the old MS-DOS convention of keeping the RTC in some local
> time that is not further specified in the CMOS RAM data. I was asked to
> write up a case to convince Microsoft management to dedicate resources
> for fixing this and enabling the Windows RTC driver to maintain the
> battery clock in Universal Time instead of local time.
> 
> I just did so on
> 
>   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html
> 
> and I would like to invite all computer time gurus out there to review
> this brief essay before I send it off to Redmond.

Several (minor) points:

> 
> Please let me know if you have any further
> 
>  - arguments
>  - technical suggestions/proposals
>  - related references
>  - URLs of well-documented RTC DST problem stories
> 
> that you think that whoever at Microsoft touches the Windows RTC code
> next should be aware of.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Markus
> 
> --
> Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
> Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>