Re: (solved) Re: jessie and stretch time problem
On 2018-10-13, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat 13 Oct 2018 at 09:03:44 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
>> On Sat 13 Oct 2018 at 07:27:57 (+0000), Long Wind wrote:
>> > Thank Teemu Likonen!
>> > You are right. My stretch and jessie think differently about hardware clock.
>> > i run "timedatectl set-local-rtc 1", it should be ok for both now.
>> > though there's warning, i think it's ok
>>
>> Because China doesn't use Daylight Savings Time nowadays, your choice
>> between UTC and local time is less important than for most as your
>> clock doesn't have to be changed twice a year.
>
> Never knew this, I hope DST and China come up in a pub quiz!
Me neither. What surprised me, though, is that China has no time zones,
either (though it covers over 60 degrees of longitude).
UTC+8 everywhere.
Apparently Mao made the decision in 1949 to put everyone on Beijing
Time (and into those cunning little tunics).
>> For everyone else, it makes a lot more sense to use UTC for the real
>> time clock. Also, judging by my experience on this dual-booting
>
> For Debian (all we care about), UTC time set in the bios is the way to
> go. Its always worked for me.
>
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