On Tue 18 Jun 2024 at 04:12:07 (-0400), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > 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: > > > [...] > > > 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>.
Here's your subthread for discussing the RTC, as it's a separate issue from the system's time zone. (I believe I'm correct in saying that Windows has long been able, by means of a registry key setting, to run with the RTC set to UTC.) Cheers, David.
