If you have the luxury, time, and resources to ditch Windows and make the switch, then perhaps Linux or Mac will serve you better with much more than the keeping of accurate time. For reasons that extend far beyond wonky time-keeping, I have been wanting to switch to open-source for years. The first thing that comes to mind is to switch operating systems. This has caught me off-guard on several occasions now, as I would work with an incorrect assumption concerning the time, only to find myself running an hour late to an appointment. For example, if the time is actually 3:00pm, Windows will suddenly display the time as 2:00pm. Specifically, WinXP will automatically (i.e., without user intervention) set the time to be one hour earlier than the actual time. Ever since the change, Windows XP has been randomly resetting its clock (as indicated via the Taskbar) to display time incorrectly. I don’t know about you, but ever since the 2007 change in daylight savings time, my installation of Windows XP has had a difficult time (so to speak) maintaining consistently accurate time.
