Re: system time

[Ralph Plawetzki <ralph@plawetzki.net>]

Florian Reitmeir schrieb:
> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007, Ralph Plawetzki wrote:
> 
>> Florian Reitmeir schrieb:
>>> On Fri, 07 Sep 2007, Ralph Plawetzki wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, this is a good idea to not have different times in the two 
>>>> operating systems on a dual boot machine, but leads to incorrect 
>>>> interpretation of time-sent stamps in e-mails. The MUA will show time 
>>>> stamps that differ the amount of time the set UTC on the machine differs 
>>> >from the real UTC.
>>>> Unfortunately I've got no solution for this problem on dual boot machines.
>>> ?????????????????????????????????????
>>>
>> You did not get my point.
> i think i did
> 
>> Lets assume I would follow your suggestion and change the time on the 
>> linux part of a dual boot system to the actual local time by using „date 
>> -us“ (you call UTC „system-default timezone“). In this case the UTC 
>> on the system would be stored in the RTC and windows would have the same 
>> time.
> 
> _no_ thats nonsense
> and the conclusions too.
> 
> please read, chapter: "Clocks in a Linux System"
> 
> man hwclock
> 

I know that this is nonsense. I followed your thoughts and described
what you said above as a scenario.

Ralph