Hi, On Fri, 07 Sep 2007, daniele pendenza wrote:
> It's time :-) to understand why my DEBIAN/GNU/LINUX system thinks that > the "BIOS time" is set up as the GMT time and shift it to the "local" time. > > 1- what part of the system controls this behavior ? is there only a flag > somewhere whose value could be only GMT or LOCAL ? > > 2- how can i change this behavior ? first... there is - BIOS Time - Linux Time & MS Windows Time normally the thing works like this: pc turned of, bios time is running pc is turned of os is booted os reads the bios time, ONE TIME os is running os is shutting down bios is running its time the bios time has no relevance if you use linux&windows, its only purpose is to store the time, while the OS is turned off, or the OS is sleeping. Linux vs. Windows Linux shows each user his local time. Thats done by calculating time for the user. Each user can have its different TimeZone. Of Course there is also a System-Default-Timezone.. And the question remains, should linux store the time into the bios clock using the system-default-timezone or should it store gmt? Windows on the otherside.. is _always_ using local time, and calculates the timezones from it. So if you run a german windows its default ist GMT+2, so is the bios set. if you run windows in greenwitch, windows uses GMT and stores GMT into the bios. so .. if you want to use dual boot, linux windows, its a good idea to run linux with its system-default-timezone same as windows, and let linux store the bios time this way. and.. to change such things, run 'tzconfig'. -- Florian Reitmeir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
