Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote on 09/29/2014 12:13:48 PM: > On Monday 29 September 2014 17:01:31 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > well, it's my understanding that the system (hardware) time is always > > UTC, but there is no way to set localtime to GMT (or UTC). Perhaps I'm > > misunderstanding you. > > Erm.... What do you think we who live near Greenwich do??? > > Lisi
I don't think the system time is always UTC. The 'time' function, for example, seems to return an epoch time in the system's localtime. So, for example, if one's localtime is EDT, 'time' returns the number of seconds since Jan. 1, 1970 (eastern time zone). Joe
