Clock?

C. Scott Ananian cscott at laptop.org
Sun Dec 23 14:52:17 EST 2007


On Dec 22, 2007 10:06 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> It looks in /etc/sysconfig/clock for the UTC flag.  It defaults to local.
>
> My XO doesn't have an /etc/sysconfig/clock
>
> All the Linux boxes I've ever worked with have run with the hardware clock
> set to UTC.  I'm not sure why XO is setup to use local time.  It should work.
>  (The only reason I know to have the UTC set to local time is if you are dual
> booting with a popular OS that needs (needed?) local time.)

See trac #4959 (/etc/sysconfig/clock will be created in update.1) and
#5648 (just filed, for the UTC=true clause).
 --scott
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