Jonathan Dill wrote:
>> why would any of this be easier than letting the system track DST
>> itself? even on my ancient RH7.2-based server, updating the
>> zoneinfo files took me all of 5 minutes. and for anything more
>> modern, a semi-automatic upgrade (i.e. "apt-get update; apt-get
>> upgrade") took care of it quite a long time ago without me even
>> noticing.
>>
> The pain is not doing the patches (which have all been done anyway) the
> pain is all of the official reporting, perhaps that is not required in
> your environment. It would be much simpler to say, "all of the servers
> are configured to use UTC and will not be affected by DST changes."
> Then in future, it does not matter whatever decisions the politicians
> make about the observance or non-observance of DST, no correction is
> necessary.
Internally, Linux (probably all posix-like systems) runs in UTC and just
computes the offset to local time when something wants to display it
that way, and it allows for the fact that different users can be in
different time zones on the same machine. The only difference it makes
when you set that option about UTC when you install is that it sets your
motherboard hardware clock the way you say.
> Workstations and servers where users login are a different
> matter, but for "headless boxes" it would make life simpler. Of course,
> Windows is a different can of worms--it's possible to set RTC to UTC,
> but it is not consistently handled by the OS and applications.
It was well known before computers were invented that local time
variations are up to the whims of local politicians. The only sensible
way to handle it is with easily replaceable tables of offsets from UTC.
--
Les Mikesell
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