Re: Time change this weekend -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Time change this weekend
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:58:14 -0700
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Charles Wilt wrote:

I believe the answer is that the OS slows down the clock, so that by
2am on an unchanged clock, the time on the box is only 1am. I believe
it starts the slowdown at midnight. So in other words, it takes 2hrs
to move from midnight to 1am.

But for the life of me, I can't find confirmation of that.

Let's do the time warp again.

--
JHHL
(who's never actually seen more than a few minutes of Rocky Horror)

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