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• Change the clock.

According to the system clock on this laptop, it’s almost half past six in the evening. Except that it’s not, where I am, it’s almost half past twelve in the afternoon. Understandably, the Department sets up most people to have Limited Accounts when they borrow a laptop — they don’t want people installing any old software, either on purpose or by accident on visiting a dodgy website whilst bored and alone in their motel room after a long day’s conferencing. [This is not the case with myself, I hasten to add: I am neither bored nor alone, and am staying somewhere a damn sight nicer than a motel room. Nor am I at a conference, for that matter.]

But preventing a user from changing the clock? How can I break anything by setting it to a different timezone?

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Caitlin | 2004 / 09 / 19 – 22:19

Maybe Microsoft thinks you might use it to try to fool time-restricted software?

(yes, I agree that it’s a stupid thing to block)

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