Re: wine.inf: Windows 9x and Windows NT store the time zone data in different places.

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Friday, August 4, 2006, 9:47:38 AM, Francois Gouget wrote:
> So duplicate it so programs find it no matter where they look.
> Note:
> Another option would be to have a [Timezones9x] section that would set 
> this data in the alternate location. But we would still need to 
> duplicate all the data in the inf file anyway. This would also make 
> checking the inf file consistency harder too. And finally, it would make 
> it impossible to change the Windows version of a Wine environment after 
> the fact. So I chose to just duplicate it all.

You missed one more option - use registry symlinks. The only problem is -
win2k and winXP doesn't have those registry keys in win9x place.

Vitaliy Margolen