On Mon 03 Jul 2017 at 09:38:12 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 06:08:31PM -0300, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > > I use Linux since Slackware 2.0, way before Windows 95. And up to > > Debian 8, I've never, EVER, had to follow that procedure because it > > worked just fine before. I'm using Debian like what, 10 years now. > > > > Why do I have to change a registry because something in Debian 9 is > > not syncing the time correctly with the hard drive before a reboot? > > > > Just to make sure, I've reinstalled Debian 8 and the issue is gone, > > it happens again with 9 so, I'm not changing that registry. > > > > This is a Debian 9 issue. > > Yes, I agree that this doesn't look like a time initialization > issue or a hardware clock issue.
The future could get complicated for people not running on UTC if time offsets of a few seconds start to arise. AIUI timezones as presently implemented can't handle that. Cheers, David.