On 2009-03-30 15:50, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 2009-03-29_11:15:15, Ron Johnson wrote:
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If you only have Linux on your computer, then it's clock is most likely UTC.On a Linux computer, the internal clock is almost certainly *NOT* UTC, rather it is "seconds since Unix Epoch", often shortened to "seconds since Epoch", or just "Unix time".
The BIOS does not have a concept of time zone. It only knows "seconds since it's epoch". And that's (I think) translated to a struct or string (but not integer, like in Unix) which the kernel reads at boot.
But on the 90% of machines that run Windows, that BIOS time is "local". On "single-boot" Linux and BSD machines (not sure about OSX, though), the BIOS clock is ABSOLUTELY set to GMT/UTC.
-- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Freedom is not a license for anarchy."