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Subject: Re: Newbie Q: How to program in UTC (time/calendar) ?
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On Mar 25, 3:28=A0pm, tmo...@acm.org wrote:

> =A0 Ada.Calendar.Clock can only give your program a reading of the
> computer's clock. =A0If you keep changing the computer's clock as you
> travel, you will need to inform the data logging program of each change i=
n
> UTC offset. =A0The simpler approach would be to set the computer's clock =
to
> UTC at the beginning of the trip and not change it as you travel.

I know this is what Windows[1] does, but it isn't what a Real OS (tm)
would do (I know there are problems if you dual-boot with Windows and
a real OS, better to use VMware running on your native OS perhaps).

[1] Has Vista been fixed in this respect?