Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 4:05 AM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 11:54:03PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > [...]
> >   $ date; timedatectl status
> >   Mon Jun 17 23:51:43 CDT 2024
> >                  Local time: Tue 2024-06-18 04:51:43 UTC
> >              Universal time: Tue 2024-06-18 04:51:43 UTC
> >                    RTC time: Tue 2024-06-18 04:51:43
> >                   Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000)
> >   System clock synchronized: yes
> >                 NTP service: active
> >             RTC in local TZ: no
> >   $
> >
> > I notice that   man timedatectl   says:
> >
> >        set-timezone [TIMEZONE]
> >            Set the system time zone to the specified value.
> >            Available timezones can be listed with list-timezones.
> >            If the RTC is configured to be in the local time, this
> >            will also update the RTC time. This call will alter
> >            the /etc/localtime symlink. See localtime(5) for more
> >            information.
>
> I cringe a bit when I see that.

Yeah.. on Linux, it is recommended to keep the RTC clock in UTC.
Unless Windows has contaminated the machine. See
<https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime>.

Jeff