Re: Double summer time?

Mogens Kjaer wrote:

I've never really understood this question asked during installation:
"Does your computer use UTC" (or something like that).
How does one determine the answer?


Look at the time in the BIOS.

I looked in the BIOS,
and there is nothing there to say if it is or is not using UTC.

You would use UTC=YES on a Linux-only machine, and UTC=NO
on a dualboot (Linux/Windows) machine.

If that is a correct answer, then this simply confirms my view
that this is a silly question to ask during installation.

How is the user meant to determine the answer to the question?

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