On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:07:35PM +0100, Anthony wrote:
> > > In my experience Windows will change the hardware clock the first time
> > > you boot into it after the clocks have gone forward/back an hour.  This
> > > will only happen twice a year. How to stop it, I have not checked (I
> > > just switch the clock back an hour from within windows after such a
> > > reboot).  Is there a GMT windows timezone?
> >
>
> > Start->Settings->Control Panel->Date/Time->Time Zone tab-> Uncheck
> > "Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving change".
> >
>
> Ah, that's grand. I knew about that aspect and had already unchecked the
> appropriate box. I was just worried that Windows was engaging in
> undocumented behaviour that I didn't know about.
>
well, it changes the time then, and then leaves it alone.
However, Windows expects the time in the RTC to be local time. Linux
can be configured to do either this, or to have the RTC at UTC,
and then use /etc/localtime to figure out the right timezone.
Depending on how you've set it up, this may be a problem (with one
or other of the OS's one hour out). OS-X also does this silliness :(
(RTC should always have UTC, that way different people can set their
own timezone on the machine... though I suppose that only applies
to multi-user machines).
L.
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With the increasing prevalence of web services (not that they are always a
good thing), I doubt that parsing XML will be something that will remain at
the Java application layer for long... Recent threads here on Fork
indicating the move towards hardware parsing or this code even become part
of the native implementation of Java on various platforms...
Reza B'Far
-----Original Message-----
From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com]On Behalf Of Adam
L. Beberg
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 9:01 PM
To: Mr. FoRK
Cc: fork@spamassassin.taint.org
Subject: Re: Java is for kiddies
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Mr. FoRK wrote:
> > 6.  Hardware is getting so fast that I'm not sure if the performance
> > difference between Java and C/C++ are relevant any more.
>
> When out-of-the-box parsing & transform of XML in java is 25x slower than
> C++ on the same hardware then it does matter.
Yea, and that on top of the 100x of all the parsing engines over just
bigendian'ing it and passing the data (5x+++) in the raw. Then it REALLY
matters.
- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
beberg@mithral.com