On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 16:01 -0800, unruh wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > > > Exactly, there are no issues when using Linux with the hardware clock > > using local time. > > Yes, there are. If the clock is on localtime, when Linux boots up it > assumes that the bios clock really is on local time-- and if since you > last shut it down, daylight saving time change has occured, it assumes > that yo uhave adjusted your bios clock to the correct daylight saving > time. Ie, YOU have to make sure that your bios clock is always on the > correct time including all DST changes. Under UTC the bios clock never > changes for DST. Linux uses /etc/localtime to display the DST corrected > time, but the bios clock does NOT have to be adjusted with DST occurs.
That's not true, after running ntpdate everything is ok. > > > > I don't say that UTC always is an disadvantage, I just try to say, that > > for some usages it is an disadvantage. > > Nope. So the BIOS does transform the UTC time to local time too? It doesn't. > > > > > Nobody does explain for what usage UTC is an advantage. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1354155744.2393.4.camel@q
