On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Pavel Epifanov wrote: > Please, remove this command (--systohc).
I disagree. I run several Debian servers, each synced by NTP. Each of them is rarely rebooted, however, when it happens, I can't risk that the RTC time went haywire during their long uptime. The --systohc is a must for me as I need to carry (almost) precise time across the reboot. (For those who are about to suggest me that I use ntpdate at boot time: No, it doesn't work because the Internet connection may be down during the reboot.) Anyway, I think that the original message was only about --adjust, not --systohc. Both of them are pretty safe unless you have your clock set to local time and experince a crash after the DST change. In such case those unaware of the auto-adjusting feature are likely to get bitten after they set their clock again. However, as both actions (i.e., --adjust at startup and --systohc at shut down) can be made configurable, I don't clearly understand why we have to argument about it here for so long at all. Let everybody use what he needs most. Patrik