In message <aa6jal$q5g$01$1@news.t-online.com>, Michael Core writes:
>David Laight wrote:
>
>> Booting win98 it came up with its 'the system has detected
>> the start of daylight saving, has has changed the system clock'.
>> (Dunno why it can't run on UTC like everything else :-(  )
>> 
>> Anyway, next time I boot netBSD I find the clock has advanced
>> an extra hour :-(
>
>> Anyone know any idea why this code is still broken
>> after so many years?
>
>Because Windows is still broken. It thinks it has to maintain the system.
>It assumes it is allowed to touch and change everything. There's is no
>fsck'ing need to alter the physical RTC. NetBSD will detect the start of
>daylight saving and add the extra hour when reporting the time. AFAIK
>there's a setting (probably very hidden) for Windows to ignore daylight
>savings.

It's not hidden at all.  Right-click on the time in the system bar, and 
select "adjust date/time".  Click on "time zone".  There'a a box in 
that window that says "adjust for daylight savings time".

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