On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 02:16:14PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
Reading the link that Walton sent, the only case where RTC clock in UTC is
recommended is in the linux/windows dual-boot case. There's no statement that
RTC should be set to UTC besides that. And they say right there why it isn't
mentioned: your Debian machine might move around geographically. But if it
doesnt....
Servers in data centers don't move around, they just sit there :-) So in my
experience servers running anything non-windows have RTC set to local time.
Which is great, except that for some reason we still have daylight
saving time...which screws everything up. So the real answer is that
keeping RTC in local time is great for servers which never move around
and don't have DST *or never turn off*. In which case it doesn't really
matter. Except for that corner case where it suddenly does, at which
point you'll regret not having used UTC (which works reliably regardless
of what the politicians have decided to do to local time, and regardless
of how long a server has been turned off).
