On Fri 21 Jun 2024 at 07:15:32 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 23:17:42 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > And what am I to call the time that a system > > issues using that system default time zone? > > If you mean the current time translated into that time zone, "local time" > is the traditional name for it.
That might have worked when computers were big and heavy, but that's no longer the case. When you travel with your laptop, there could be two different local times, your one displayed by the computer, and the real local time that tells you when "last orders" will be called in the local pub. > > If I boot up two computers > > and they display different times, what term is appropriate in your > > opinion to describe the time displayed? > > They're out of sync. Or, at least one of them is. No, the kernel clocks are all in sync. > Or did you mean "the same time, but in two different time zones"? If > you displayed these times by running "date", which respects both the > TZ environment variable and the /etc/localtime symlink, then you figure > out which of them is set to an undesired value. And then you fix it. > Or, if it's set how you *want* it, then you leave it alone. Yes, they're set as desired. But now you've used 1.3k in your post, and I still don't have my adjective. The computers issue different times, because they're being used by different people for different purposes like in an internet café. I need to tell these people what time they're set to. I say to them "this system is on Dubai time, and that one's on Bahrain time. They know exactly what I mean, but what's the term for those times? (Other than system time, which is what I'd call it.) And it's not "local time", because the ferry we're on is about to leave Karachi, so clocks will be showing PKT. Cheers, David.
