Quoting Ed Cogburn (ecogburn@greene.xtn.net):
>
> This isn't exactly true. You can keep your hardware clock on local,
> and you can tell Linux to use local time (keeping it from messing
> around). Linux does not set my hardware clock to GMT at shutdown, it
> sets it with local time, which is what I want because I use ntpdate to
> update date/time every time I bring up a net connection. Sure,
> setting up GMT is the Unix(TM) thing to do, but why bother? It knows
> my timezone, handles daylight savings automatically, and it stays
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
How does it do this? If it changes the hardware clock, I call this
messing around. The trouble is, the Broken OS also messes around
and suddenly you've jumped two hours instead of one.. (If it doesn't
change the hardware clock, then it's not running local time, is it.)
Cheers,
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