On Thursday, 04/27/2006 at 11:16 ZE2, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/27/06, Wiggins, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alright, when I go to YaST - "Clock and Time Zone Configuration", I see > > "Hardware clock set to UTC", I see "Region = USA" and "Time Zone = > > Eastern". Are we talking about a different hardware clock here? > > That's the way to do it (and I am not sure this got fixed, but > previously when you set it not to UTC you got a random offset ;-). > Linux gets the hardware clock from its virtual TOD, and normally > that's identical to the LPAR TOD, which is normally equal to the > hardware TOD. They're all at UTC, which is good.
But it's important to remember that the TOD doesn't have an intrinsic timezone. Linux has been told to *assume* the TOD is set to UTC, and since a virtual TOD is set from the LPAR TOD, the machine must be set to UTC. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
