--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@...> wrote:

>
> Adam wrote:
>
> > The clocks on all OSes supported by Firebird use UTC *natively*, and
> > only convert to a local representation upon request. In Windows for
> > example, GetLocalTime is internally a wrapper around GetSystemTime and
> > SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTime.
>
> Please can you provide some more proof on this.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724493(VS.85).aspx

In terms of hardware clock weirdness, I can not explain, but it is
getting pretty OT.

Adam