Does anybody know how Windows adjusts for daylight savings time? In addition to booting linux and xp home, I have now added xp professional. Curious thing happened now. Instead of setting the clock back one hour for daylight savings, it has set it back two hours. I know that this is not a linux issue, I haven't booted into that since the time change. I did boot into both xp home and xp pro since the change. A search on google only showed me that some extreme northern latitudes adjust two hours instead of just one, and my region is not set to anyplace like that.

If your system was running Linux at the time the clock flipped, and you're set up for local time; i.e., not UTC, then your clock got adjusted back one hour (as it should have been). When you booted winders, it just set the clock back another hour for you -- winders does not check to see if it's right, it just does its thing at both ends of stupid... uh, daylight time. Booted twice (xp home, xp pro)? Two hours.

So, to fix it, in winders, double-click the clock and have the thing sync to network time (that'll adjust the clock to where it should be). Probably have to do that for both versions of xp (why in the world do you have two running? Enjoy pain, do we ) When you go back to Linux, the hardware clock will be set properly and all should be well with the world. If not, just run ntpdate one time (you probably ought to have it in your local startup).

And exactly that happened to me yesterday. Most of the time I use only slackware but yesterday I booted to windoze xp to move some files (tons of Anime! ) in a NTFS partition as I was rearraging some disk space to install more test distros (I wanted to check out Kubuntu 6.10).

Then I noticed the clock was one hour back, but it was already fine before, I mean, where was no problem at all with the DST clock flip back at the weekend. I guessed that the stupid windoze tried to adjust the clock again but it ended screwing it up, not a big deal but rather unpleasant, that it was.

Offtopic note: Kubuntu 6.10 installed just fine and looks great but I like it more as a live-cd than a day-to-day use distro

Actually, having two is much less painful than one. When one inevitably breaks, I have the other, and can still access all my stuff.