On November 18, 2003 09:43, A. Craig West wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Javier Gostling wrote: > > Actually, Windows assumes the hw clock to be set to local time, so if you > > set Linux to UTC, then Linux will mess your time. I had this happen some > > time ago, and instructing Linux that the hw clock is in local time solved > > the issue. > > I've never really understood why it is that Microsoft does not allow a UTC > hardware clock. Because of daylight savings time, having the hardware clock > set to localtime causes the actual hardware clock to be reset twice a year. > This can result in flakiness with any process that happened to be waiting > for a time to occur at that instant. > > My solution, which isn't particularly good, is to run any dual boot > machines in UTC and tell windows that my timezone is Greenwich Mean Time, > and set it to not adjust the clock for daylight savings. I would rather > have to deal with times in GMT than have random intermittent flakiness.
Now that we are done the debate on M$ vs. linux I hope? Does anyone know the answer to my original question. Up until about a month ago I was keeping good time both in windows and in gentoo with my hwclock set to local. Now for some reason everytime I boot gentoo it thinks that the hwclock is set to UTC and corrects for that ie) it sets the time 8 hrs earlier. So where do I look other than rc.conf to correct this?? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
