On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 7:09 AM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 23:09:04 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 18 Jun 2024 at 07:07:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 23:54:03 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > What should I call the timezone of my computer when it's booted up and > > > > no users are logged in? > > > > > > Daemons will almost always use the system's default time zone (the one > > > specified by /etc/localtime or /etc/timezone). > > > > > > It's *theoretically* possible for some daemons to be configured to use > > > a different time zone, or to be hard-coded to use UTC. I've never seen > > > this, but it could be done. > > > > In view of that, I think it's reasonable to drop the "default", > > and go with "system time zone", ie the time zone that the system > > clock it set to. > > I strongly disagree. The system clock is kept on "epoch time", which > is the number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC. > > The system clock doesn't have a time zone of its own. It just gets > converted to a time and date within any given time zone on demand.
++. The sharp edge is how the RTC clock is set - UTC or localtime. Also see <https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime>. Jeff
