On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:30:36PM -0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> > Today morning when I switched on my computers, Windows machines informed
> > me about updating clocks regarding Daylight Saving Time, so they did.
> > But Linux machines did not. I wonder if Linux (RH 6.2 in particular)
> > has this ability when it comes to update clocks?
>
> It does, though I am not sure how to turn it on/off. I was watching my
> clock at 2:00AM Sun here, and it jumped back to 1:00AM with no user
> intervention. I suspect this is a function of the timezone setting
> somehow. I am on 7.0 now, but 6.x behaved the same way.
>
>
If your hardware clock is set to UTC, then the only thing that changes is
how the time is displayed. If you do a date command, you will notice that
the 3 letters for the time zone have also changed. My clock changed from
CDT to CST with the time change. Internaly, Linux keeps time in
UTC. Now, as to Linux changing the hardware clock, I guess it depends on
how you have things set up. On my duel boot machine, the hardware clock
in still on CDT, and probably will stay that way untill I reboot. It was
running during the time change, but it has not booted into Windows yet.
Mikkel
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