[Lazarus] tooltip debugger shows incorrect data

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Juha Manninen (gmail) schrieb:
> On Sunday 17 October 2010 16:29:57 Maxim Ganetsky wrote:
>> Can you correct your time please?
> 
> Ok, I fixed it now. This mail should have a correct time stamp. I don't know 
> why it happens but dual-booting to Windows Vista always messes the time.

I also had and have problems with the real time, in dual boots and in 
virtual machines. One cause is DST, which can result in multiple updates 
of the BIOS time. It's unclear why this problem persists, when nowadays 
the system time is synced via Internet. The implementation of this 
feature sucks, in both Windows and Linux systems; in one case I had to 
disable the update of the hardware clock, on shutdown of openSuse. In 
Windows different problems exist, possibly with the automatic DST and 
UTC adjustment.

Actually the hardware clock can be set to either UTC (Linux) or to local 
time, with *or* without DST adjustment (Windows). When one Windows 
assumes DST adjusted time, and another one assumes unadjusted local 
time, every boot or shutdown will result in a different setting of the 
hardware clock :-(



> There are some youngsters who use this "super-computer" for 3-D games on 
> Windows.

Older games used to manipulate the system time, perhaps relicts from 
those "good ole days" still exist in current gaming libraries?

Unfortunately it's not a good idea to run games in a VM, so that this 
essentially simple solution would frustrate your youngsters, with even 
worse consequences to your nerves :-(

DoDi