On Monday 03 July 2017 11:02:56 David Wright wrote: > 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.
I put my hdwe clocks on UCT 18 years ago with my first redhat 5.0 install. The tz files have kept pace for me, so its not been a problem other that one install in 2002 set it to local but didn't set the hdwe clock, so on the next reboot, it set the arrival times of 6 messages before I noticed it, to sometime in 2020. Its a mailing list I do not expire but even if I did set one, those 6 msgs would still be there. Shrug.... Lesson #10 for linux, put the hardware clock on UCT, set /your/ time zone in the locale, and forget about it. It Just Works(TM) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>