On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:27:49AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sun, Oct 25, 1998 at 07:53:00PM +0100, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > > Linux will not change the clock at all (contrary to Windows). All > > > Linux does is to interpret the time in a different way. > > [...] > > > If the CMOS clock is set to local time Linux won't adapt to the change > > > between daylight saving and normal time IIRC. > > > > All my systems are set to local time, and they all adjusted to daylight > > savings correctly. > > Have you rebooted yet? The diff is that if your CMOS clock is set to > UTC, it's correct regardless of the local tz; that's not the case if the > CMOS clock is set to some local tz. I think the problem may even be
As I mentioned before, the CMOS clock is not adjusted, but the software clock is. That's fine with me; I've just logged on and run "hwclock -w" on them. Yes, the clock would be wrong on the next startup; fortunately, one of these boxes has been up 139 days so far and probably won't need a reboot for another 139. This box was deployed almost two years ago and all downtime has been power or hardware related. It's co-located at an ISP; at the first ISP, we had 180 days up but it got rebooted unnecessarily to fix a routing problem. At the current ISP, we had some power supply problems which were given < 10 day uptimes but they've been fixed (and we're still not even on the UPS, which I think is sitting behind the rack awaiting a good time for installation). We had minor hardware failure in February which lead to a couple of days offline too. The downtime 139 days ago was to install a new modem; while we do have PnP hardware, we don't quite have hot-swappable yet :-) It was deployed with Debian 1.1, upgraded to 1.2 then 1.3 over the net without a reboot (during the 180 day stint) and later to 2.0. A few weeks ago there were a couple of unhandled kernel exceptions in the logs, but it's still working just fine; Linux 2.0.34. Linux rocks. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
