On Fri 21 Jun 2024 at 06:48:14 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:17:42PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 20 Jun 2024 at 22:58:53 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 09:32:10 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > On 20/06/2024 11:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > Well, that's a mouthful. And what am I to call the time that a system > > issues using that system default time zone? If I boot up two computers > > and they display different times, what term is appropriate in your > > opinion to describe the time displayed? > > The first step would be to realize that it's not the "computers" doing > the time display, but some processes running on them, and *those* are > the ones with the time zone (either default or explicitly set).
Yes, I realise that. The times are being displayed by the gettys, controlled by the /etc/issue format string. Jobs are being run by cron, logs written by rsyslogd, and so on. And the term is … ? Cheers, David.
