Re: Spring forward

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

>>Thus on dual boot boxes you should set hwclock to localtime.
>>The tz issue raises no new issues.
>
>I still think it does (or might).  Here's why.  If I sometimes boot 
>MS-Windows (MSW from now on) then I need to set GNU/Linux to use local 
>time.  If I'm using local time, somebody needs to reset the hardware clock 
>when daylight savings starts or stops (this is an inference I make from the 
>need to have MSW do this).
>
>MSW mostly: I let MSW reset the hardware clock, and things are fine when I 
>boot into GNU.  (As long as I don't start it before MSW when the time zone 
>changes).
>
>GNU mostly:  Then I need GNU/Linux to reset the hardware clock.
>
>So I have two cases where I use local time. In one case I simply take the 
>hardware time as right; in the other, I may want to adjust it.
>
>So I think we need to ask which of these behaviors to follow.  Of course, 
>that assumes the time zone machinery can support both.

I have no idea how it works.  I never use dual-boot.  Anyhow, its not
a boot-floppies issue.  Can we move on to more important things?

.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>