On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 4:05 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 11:54:03PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > $ date; timedatectl status > > Mon Jun 17 23:51:43 CDT 2024 > > Local time: Tue 2024-06-18 04:51:43 UTC > > Universal time: Tue 2024-06-18 04:51:43 UTC > > RTC time: Tue 2024-06-18 04:51:43 > > Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000) > > System clock synchronized: yes > > NTP service: active > > RTC in local TZ: no > > $ > > > > I notice that man timedatectl says: > > > > set-timezone [TIMEZONE] > > Set the system time zone to the specified value. > > Available timezones can be listed with list-timezones. > > If the RTC is configured to be in the local time, this > > will also update the RTC time. This call will alter > > the /etc/localtime symlink. See localtime(5) for more > > information. > > I cringe a bit when I see that.
Yeah.. on Linux, it is recommended to keep the RTC clock in UTC. Unless Windows has contaminated the machine. See <https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime>. Jeff
