Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-12-03 Thread Urs Thuermann
Ralf Mardorf writes: > spinymouse@q:~$ ls -l /media/spinymouse/INTENSO/ > total 32 > -rw-r--r-- 1 spinymouse spinymouse 304 Oct 22 2011 B22OCT11.CMO > -rw-r--r-- 1 spinymouse spinymouse 304 Sep 30 2011 B30SEP11.CMO > -rw-r--r-- 1 spinymouse spinymouse 15644 Nov 10 2011 Hakle-Geld-zurück.o

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-12-03 Thread Urs Thuermann
Ralf Mardorf writes: > If the clock does use local time, then the time for all BIOS and all > Linux files are ok. This is not completely true. If there is change from/to daylight saving time to/from standard time between saving the files using the BIOS and booting your Linux system the kernel w

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-12-03 Thread Urs Thuermann
Ralf Mardorf writes: > If I save BIOS settings as a file and the hwclock is set to UTC, the > files don't get the German time. The BIOS is the BIOS, it's neither > Windows, I don't use Windows, but nor the BIOS is Linux, so Linux can't > "translate" UTC to local time, when I save BIOS settings.

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 21:22 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > There are also services that become quite distressed if the clock > jumps back an hour. OIC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Ralf Mardorf writes: > That's not true, after running ntpdate everything is ok. Except for anything that happened before ntpdate ran, such as writing logs. And if ntpdate never runs because it can't reach a server you're an hour off. There are also services that become quite distressed if the cl

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 16:01 -0800, unruh wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > > > Exactly, there are no issues when using Linux with the hardware clock > > using local time. > > Yes, there are. If the clock is on localtime, when Linux boots up it > assumes that the bios clock really is on

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 19:31 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: [snip] spinymouse@q:~$ ls -l /media/spinymouse/INTENSO/ total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 spinymouse spinymouse 304 Oct 22 2011 B22OCT11.CMO -rw-r--r-- 1 spinymouse spinymouse 304 Sep 30 2011 B30SEP11.CMO -rw-r--r-- 1 spinymouse spinymouse 15644 No

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 19:31 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Or think of banking transactions or stock exchange transactions. I guess something like this really is an issue, but I also suspect that this anyway will be handled by special software. Thank you for the explanation, Ralf -- To UNSUBSC

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 28 November 2012 16:18:30 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 10:40 -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > On 28 November 2012 09:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:45 -0800, unruh wrote: > > >> In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > >> > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 10:40 -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 28 November 2012 09:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:45 -0800, unruh wrote: > >> In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > >> > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:44 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > >> >> Yep. Unfortunately Microsoft ne

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 28 November 2012 09:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:45 -0800, unruh wrote: >> In linux.debian.user, you wrote: >> > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:44 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: >> >> Yep. Unfortunately Microsoft never learned in > 25 years that the >> >> world has more time zones

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 19:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 19:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 11:48 -0600, green wrote: > > > Ralf Mardorf wrote at 2012-11-28 11:04 -0600: > > > > If I save BIOS settings as a file and the hwclock is set to UTC, the > > >

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 19:12 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 11:48 -0600, green wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf wrote at 2012-11-28 11:04 -0600: > > > If I save BIOS settings as a file and the hwclock is set to UTC, the > > > files don't get the German time. The BIOS is the BIOS, it's nei

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 11:48 -0600, green wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote at 2012-11-28 11:04 -0600: > > If I save BIOS settings as a file and the hwclock is set to UTC, the > > files don't get the German time. The BIOS is the BIOS, it's neither > > Windows, I don't use Windows, but nor the BIOS is Linu

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread green
Ralf Mardorf wrote at 2012-11-28 11:04 -0600: > If I save BIOS settings as a file and the hwclock is set to UTC, the > files don't get the German time. The BIOS is the BIOS, it's neither > Windows, I don't use Windows, but nor the BIOS is Linux, so Linux can't > "translate" UTC to local time, when

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:45 -0800, unruh wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:44 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > >> Yep. Unfortunately Microsoft never learned in > 25 years that the > >> world has more time zones than they might have imagined in DOS-times. > > > > Th

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 08:44 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Yep. Unfortunately Microsoft never learned in > 25 years that the > world has more time zones than they might have imagined in DOS-times. They did and as I already explained, I want to have the local time for the BIOS too. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 28 nov 12, 08:44:59, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > So I learned to ignore the time on Windows systems with double boot. Set it to UTC, that way it is at least partially useful. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman

Re: time zone and UTC issue [rant]

2012-11-28 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 28 November 2012 07:37:49 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:55:16PM +0530, J. B wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > My box is configured to the local time zone from beginning, both hwclock > > and system time. But linux always favor hwclock to UTC. What is the > > advantage