On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 10:52:47AM +0000, Ed Cogburn wrote: I wrote: > > if you must have correct time in windows you will have to reconfigure > > linux to keep time in local time instead of GMT. [...] > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This isn't exactly true. You can keep your hardware clock on local, > and you can tell Linux to use local time (keeping it from messing > around).
that's what i said see above ;-) > Linux does not set my hardware clock to GMT at shutdown, it > sets it with local time, which is what I want because I use ntpdate to > update date/time every time I bring up a net connection. Sure, > setting up GMT is the Unix(TM) thing to do, but why bother? It knows > my timezone, handles daylight savings automatically, and it stays > accurate thanks to ntpdate; nothing wrong with using local time. I don't think Linux will adjust for Daylight savings unless the hardware clock is in GMT, otherwise it would just end up being a race condition with the broken OS also installed (why else would you have your HW clock set to local time?) (at least iirc) -- Ethan Benson
