Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-05-02 Thread Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi

On 05/02/2011 09:48 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Am 02.05.2011 14:43, schrieb Tom Gundersen:

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Thomas Bächlertho...@archlinux.org  wrote:

Am 29.04.2011 02:33, schrieb Tom Gundersen:

Hi guys,

A new initscripts package is in testing, please test and signoff.

The only change since -1 is that we now have a versioned dependency on
udev=167.

Signoff x86_64. Can we move this and mkinitcpio today?

Fine with me, but I believe we lack i686 signoffs for initscripts.

Didn't check, i686 anyone?

signoff i686 basic setup and lvm2, using UTC.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-30 Thread Mauro Santos
On 30-04-2011 00:51, Loui Chang wrote:

 Sounds like a hardware problem then. Maybe the bios should tell the OS
 if the clock is in localtime or UTC. ;)

Not really, the real time clock is a clock, it is supposed to keep the
time always moving forward in the most accurate way possible, ideally it
would keep in sync with a worldwide accepted time reference, UTC.

From the links presented so far and from my point of view the problem is
with the localtime concept itself, it was broken from the start, mucking
about with the time source is a bad idea and I can understand perfectly
why it's use is discouraged.


-- 
Mauro Santos


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.04.2011 02:43, schrieb Heiko Baums:
 Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0200
 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no:
 
 * We now strongly discourage the use of HWCLOCK=localtime, as this
 may lead to several known and unfixable bugs
 
 This can lead to problems on multi boot systems on which Arch
 Linux is installed parallel to Windows. At least older Windows versions
 can't handle hardware clocks which are set to UTC.
 
 So if there are issues with HWCLOCK=localtime these should be fixed
 instead.

Frankly, I don't care. The problems with localtime are so numerous and
subtle, handling them all is a waste of time - and it gets worst when
you change your time zones often. Using UTC is the logical approach and
works without bugs.

Every recent operating system I know can handle UTC, even Windows Vista
(bugs before SP1, works with SP1 or later) and Windows 7, and Windows XP
is so old, it shouldn't be used anyway.



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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:22:39 -0500
schrieb C Anthony Risinger anth...@extof.me:

 a [brief] post-installation message seems a good compromise to me --
 maybe even the registry file itself too -- but in the absence of both
 this is still a good change imo.

This should not only be a brief post-installation message. An
announcement in the Latest News on the homepage is important, too.

 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=WindowsTimeFixUTC.reg
 http://kb.norsetech.net/set-windows-clock-to-utc-time/
 
 download.  double-click.  done :-)

Those links, the instructions and/or the reg file should be given, too,
in this annoucement.

Heiko


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:02:22 +0200
schrieb Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org:

 Every recent operating system I know can handle UTC, even Windows
 Vista (bugs before SP1, works with SP1 or later) and Windows 7, and
 Windows XP is so old, it shouldn't be used anyway.

But there's a problem with Windows. Updating Windows is not as easy for
everybody as Linux is. There's a substantial buying resistance. So most
Windows users stay with their Windows version they once bought their
whole life, at least for the whole lifetime of their computer.

And as far as I know Windows XP shall be much better than Windows Vista.

Heiko


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:04:30 +0800
schrieb Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com:

 Isn't initscripts an Arch-specific project?

I don't know if those problems are just the initscripts or if localtime
shall just be ignored by the initscripts due to upstream issues. I even
don't know the issues.

Well, I don't care that much, because I'm not using Windows anymore and
have set my hardware clock to UTC anyway. I'm just giving my objections.

Heiko


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Matthew Gyurgyik

On 04/29/2011 06:46 AM, Heiko Baums wrote:

Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:02:22 +0200
schrieb Thomas Bächlertho...@archlinux.org:


Every recent operating system I know can handle UTC, even Windows
Vista (bugs before SP1, works with SP1 or later) and Windows 7, and
Windows XP is so old, it shouldn't be used anyway.

But there's a problem with Windows. Updating Windows is not as easy for
everybody as Linux is. There's a substantial buying resistance. So most
Windows users stay with their Windows version they once bought their
whole life, at least for the whole lifetime of their computer.

And as far as I know Windows XP shall be much better than Windows Vista.

Heiko
I'm with Thomas here. If it bugs you that much submit some patches. It 
seems as if you always have an opinion, but rarely have a solution 
and/or patches.


Folks, don't forget, arch isn't a democracy. The developers do what they 
want.


pyther


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
Hi all,

I'll try to answer all the comments in one go:

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:
 Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0200
 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no:

 * We now strongly discourage the use of HWCLOCK=localtime, as this
 may lead to several known and unfixable bugs

 This can lead to problems on multi boot systems on which Arch
 Linux is installed parallel to Windows. At least older Windows versions
 can't handle hardware clocks which are set to UTC.

Windows can be configured to use UTC. If this is not possible, we
still support localtime, but it will cause weird bugs. The only change
we made was to change the default and to add a comment to rc.conf.
Nothing will change on existing systems.

 So if there are issues with HWCLOCK=localtime these should be fixed
 instead.

I really meant what I said: The problems cannot be fixed, they are
conceptual, not implementation specific.

I wrote a summary of why systemd does not support localtime, the same
problems apply to initscripts (but we have just been ignoring them):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Why_does_systemd_not_support_the_RTC_being_in_localtime.3F.

I don't think any additional announcement should be necessary, except
for the above note on the front page and the comment in rc.conf. It
would of course be very helpful if people could update any
documentation they find that mentions localtime/UTC.

Hope that answered all the questions,

Tom


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:07:58 -0400
schrieb Matthew Gyurgyik pyt...@pyther.net:

 I'm with Thomas here. If it bugs you that much submit some patches.
 It seems as if you always have an opinion, but rarely have a solution 
 and/or patches.

And I say my opinion, at least if I see that there could be
regressions or serious issues. If it's just a misunderstanding due to
too little informations given with an announcement it can easily be
cleared up by explaining it a bit more detailed.

I'm not a developer, so this may be one of the reasons for not giving
patches or solutions so many times. If I have one, I usually give it,
and I did it quite a few times already.

 Folks, don't forget, arch isn't a democracy. The developers do what
 they want.

Then the developers should just develop for themselves without
releasing it publically or without creating a community around it, if
they don't want to listen to the users and their opinions. And/or they
should just say on the homepage: You may use it, but if it fails
you're on your own. But I doubt that this is the opinion of most of the
developers.

Heiko


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Ángel Velásquez
2011/4/29 Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de:
 Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:07:58 -0400
 schrieb Matthew Gyurgyik pyt...@pyther.net:

 I'm with Thomas here. If it bugs you that much submit some patches.
 It seems as if you always have an opinion, but rarely have a solution
 and/or patches.

 And I say my opinion, at least if I see that there could be
 regressions or serious issues. If it's just a misunderstanding due to
 too little informations given with an announcement it can easily be
 cleared up by explaining it a bit more detailed.

 I'm not a developer, so this may be one of the reasons for not giving
 patches or solutions so many times. If I have one, I usually give it,
 and I did it quite a few times already.

 Folks, don't forget, arch isn't a democracy. The developers do what
 they want.

 Then the developers should just develop for themselves without
 releasing it publically or without creating a community around it, if
 they don't want to listen to the users and their opinions. And/or they
 should just say on the homepage: You may use it, but if it fails
 you're on your own. But I doubt that this is the opinion of most of the
 developers.

 Heiko


Ok are you freaking joking on me? Why we have to worry about other OS?
if they do the wrong things, then report it to them, we don't have to
eat a hundreds of bugs, just because you like a crappy os just for
game.

That said, good job Tom!

-- 
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angvp @ irc.freenode.net
Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User
Linux Counter: #359909
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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 29.04.2011 15:36, schrieb Heiko Baums:
 And I say my opinion, at least if I see that there could be
 regressions or serious issues.

If I remember it right, the only changes were the default value and
comment in rc.conf.



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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread David Rosenstrauch

On 04/28/2011 11:22 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:

setting the hardware clock to localtime is 100% broken and the links
provided in the original announcement explain the ramifications
clearly ... at least i thought there were links somewhere ... wtf,
where did i see them?  it was an arch-related mail because i read the
link ...


Can someone pls clarify what exactly is broken about localtime?  I've 
been using it for years without any (noticable) issue.  I'll be happy to 
switch over if I need to, but I'd like to understand the problem(s) first.


DR


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:18:16 -0300
schrieb Ángel Velásquez an...@archlinux.org:

 Ok are you freaking joking on me? Why we have to worry about other OS?
 if they do the wrong things, then report it to them, we don't have to
 eat a hundreds of bugs, just because you like a crappy os just for
 game.

If you had read what I have written, then you'd know that I personally
don't care much about that as I'm not using another OS anymore for a
long time.

But there are a lot of people who are using another OS and who need
another OS in a dual-boot system, e.g. people who first want to try out
and get to know Linux before switching completely. That was how I
switched to Linux.

And you'd know that I didn't know that Windows can be set to use UTC.
And I bet that most Windows users don't know this.

And, even if I don't like to say that, it's the question if Windows is
broken, if it doesn't support UTC officially in an easy way, or Linux if
localtime is broken, or if both are broken.

So it should not only be fixed in Windows but also in Linux. If this is
not possible for whatever reason then this is not possible, but it can
be easily explained in a short note instead of starting such a long
discussion or saying such a nonsense like: Folks, don't forget, arch
isn't a democracy. The developers do what they want.

This hasn't anything to do with this topic and really doesn't help.

Heiko


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:11:22 +0200
schrieb Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org:

 If I remember it right, the only changes were the default value and
 comment in rc.conf.

Maybe, and it's alright. But as it wasn't released, yet, I just wanted
to note that a lot of people could get problems if localtime isn't
supported anymore. And I wanted to note it before it is too late. ;-)

Nevertheless an announcement should indeed be written in the Latest
News and probably in the Beginner's Guide with a link to the reg file
or a short explanation for the other OS.

Heiko


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Ángel Velásquez
2011/4/29 Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de:
 Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:11:22 +0200
 schrieb Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org:

 If I remember it right, the only changes were the default value and
 comment in rc.conf.

 Maybe, and it's alright. But as it wasn't released, yet, I just wanted
 to note that a lot of people could get problems if localtime isn't
 supported anymore. And I wanted to note it before it is too late. ;-)

 Nevertheless an announcement should indeed be written in the Latest
 News and probably in the Beginner's Guide with a link to the reg file
 or a short explanation for the other OS.

Ok stop thinking in other OS we can't assume or try to guess all the
posible cases from how you installed Arch.

Why we have to put this silly info for users of XX OS when they aren't
aware of the existence of other OS and don't care if they make stuff
uncompatible?.

This is silly, and as a user, not developer, talking by myself not for
the distro, I particularly think, that we should avoid to stop
development because uncompatibilities with XX OS, our goal is Arch,
not the rest of the OS.




 Heiko




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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote:
 Am 29.04.2011 15:36, schrieb Heiko Baums:
 And I say my opinion, at least if I see that there could be
 regressions or serious issues.

 If I remember it right, the only changes were the default value and
 comment in rc.conf.

Correct.

-t


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:
 [...] if localtime isn't
 supported anymore.

Sorry to be repeating myself: we are not considering dropping support
for localtime.

We are just pointing out that it is a bad idea to use it (it has
always been a bad idea, nothing has changed, we are just pointing it
out, as it is not obvious).

 Nevertheless an announcement should indeed be written in the Latest
 News

It will be (my first email contained a draft of that).

 and probably in the Beginner's Guide with a link to the reg file
 or a short explanation for the other OS.

Sounds like a good idea, the link I gave to the systemd page would be
a good starting point. Contributions welcome!

-t


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote:
 On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:
 [...] if localtime isn't
 supported anymore.

 Sorry to be repeating myself: we are not considering dropping support
 for localtime.

Yeah, you are right. At first sight (or maybe an oversight...) I've
got the impression of it being unsupported from now on. But rereading
the thread made that clear. Maybe that could be made more explicit.

-- 
A: Because it obfuscates the reading.
Q: Why is top posting so bad?

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Linux user #524555
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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote:
 Can someone pls clarify what exactly is broken about localtime?  I've been
 using it for years without any (noticable) issue.  I'll be happy to switch
 over if I need to, but I'd like to understand the problem(s) first.

There are some implementational problems and some conceptual ones.
Please have a look at the link I gave to the systemd page for a brief
description as well as
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html for the very
interested.

In short (sorry for any mistakes or omissions):

In linux we have (at least) two clocks, the hardware clock and the
system time. The system time is what matters when the computer is
running and this is always in UTC, the hardware clock is what
remembers the time for us when the computer is switched off and this
is what we are discussing now. It may be in localtime or in UTC.

When we turn the computer on we have to instantiate the system time
from the hardware clock. If the hardware clock is in UTC this is
straightforward, but if it is in localtime it is impossible. Well, it
is impossible to get it right all of the time, but it almost always
works out ok (that's why most people will never notice).

There are (at least) two reasons for the problems and they both have
to do with daylight saving time:
1) as I said, when the computer starts we need to take the time from
the hardware clock and adjust for the timezone to get the time in UTC.
However, imagine that your hardware clock tells you it is half past
two in the morning on the day the clock should be adjusted back by one
hour. What time is it in UTC? There is no way to know (it depends on
whether the clock was adjusted back half an hour ago, or if it should
be adjusted back in half an hour). This problem occurs in a one hour
window every year.
2) if you are dual-booting, who should correct for DST? Usually both
OS'es will, and then we are off by one hour. If you decide that only
one should do it then we are off by one hour if we start the wrong one
first, etc. This problem occurs twice every year.

HTH,

Tom


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
denisfalqu...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yeah, you are right. At first sight (or maybe an oversight...) I've
 got the impression of it being unsupported from now on. But rereading
 the thread made that clear. Maybe that could be made more explicit.

Yes, it appears this should be made more clear. I'll write:

* We now strongly discourage the use of HWCLOCK=localtime, as this
may lead to several known and unfixable bugs. However, there are no
plans to drop support for localtime.


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 29 Apr 2011 23:00 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
 On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.net wrote:
  Can someone pls clarify what exactly is broken about localtime?  I've been
  using it for years without any (noticable) issue.  I'll be happy to switch
  over if I need to, but I'd like to understand the problem(s) first.
 
 There are some implementational problems and some conceptual ones.
 Please have a look at the link I gave to the systemd page for a brief
 description as well as
 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html for the very
 interested.

Sounds like a hardware problem then. Maybe the bios should tell the OS
if the clock is in localtime or UTC. ;)



Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0200
schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no:

 * We now strongly discourage the use of HWCLOCK=localtime, as this
 may lead to several known and unfixable bugs

This can lead to problems on multi boot systems on which Arch
Linux is installed parallel to Windows. At least older Windows versions
can't handle hardware clocks which are set to UTC.

So if there are issues with HWCLOCK=localtime these should be fixed
instead.

Heiko


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-28 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:
 Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0200
 schrieb Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no:

 * We now strongly discourage the use of HWCLOCK=localtime, as this
 may lead to several known and unfixable bugs

 This can lead to problems on multi boot systems on which Arch
 Linux is installed parallel to Windows. At least older Windows versions
 can't handle hardware clocks which are set to UTC.

 So if there are issues with HWCLOCK=localtime these should be fixed
 instead.

 Heiko


I was under the impression that windows versions from Windows XP
onwards had a registry key which enabled them to use UTC time.


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:01:23 +0800
schrieb Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com:

 I was under the impression that windows versions from Windows XP
 onwards had a registry key which enabled them to use UTC time.

Well, I'm not using Windows anymore for many years. So I can be
wrong, but I didn't know such a registry key, yet.

Now I found one blog and one forum which point to such a registry key,
but you still have to use a registry editor or tweaker on Windows. So
it's not a common option in Windows, and I guess it's pretty unknown.
I'd suggest to better assume that Windows users usual have their
hardware clock set to localtime.

Heiko


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-28 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:
 Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:01:23 +0800
 schrieb Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com:

 I was under the impression that windows versions from Windows XP
 onwards had a registry key which enabled them to use UTC time.

 Well, I'm not using Windows anymore for many years. So I can be
 wrong, but I didn't know such a registry key, yet.

 Now I found one blog and one forum which point to such a registry key,
 but you still have to use a registry editor or tweaker on Windows. So
 it's not a common option in Windows, and I guess it's pretty unknown.
 I'd suggest to better assume that Windows users usual have their
 hardware clock set to localtime.

Conversely, perhaps we can assume that Windows users who are able to
install Arch Linux (and dual-boot, no less) are able to edit a
registry key =).

I have two dual-boot systems, I use UTC on one and localtime on the
other, based on what was convenient at the time. If there's bugs with
localtime switching to UTC isn't hard, and is probably easier than
fixing bugs for an easily-worked-around issue.


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:38:51 +0800
schrieb Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com:

 Conversely, perhaps we can assume that Windows users who are able to
 install Arch Linux (and dual-boot, no less) are able to edit a
 registry key =).
 
 I have two dual-boot systems, I use UTC on one and localtime on the
 other, based on what was convenient at the time. If there's bugs with
 localtime switching to UTC isn't hard, and is probably easier than
 fixing bugs for an easily-worked-around issue.

Are those bugs Arch related or do they affect other distros, too?

If they are just Arch related then I would not object. But if they
affect other distros, too, then I disagree, because there are several
distros which can easily be installed, also as dual-boot systems, by
beginners who aren't very familiar with the Windows registry.

Heiko


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-28 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote:
 Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:38:51 +0800
 schrieb Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com:

 Conversely, perhaps we can assume that Windows users who are able to
 install Arch Linux (and dual-boot, no less) are able to edit a
 registry key =).

 I have two dual-boot systems, I use UTC on one and localtime on the
 other, based on what was convenient at the time. If there's bugs with
 localtime switching to UTC isn't hard, and is probably easier than
 fixing bugs for an easily-worked-around issue.

 Are those bugs Arch related or do they affect other distros, too?

 If they are just Arch related then I would not object. But if they
 affect other distros, too, then I disagree, because there are several
 distros which can easily be installed, also as dual-boot systems, by
 beginners who aren't very familiar with the Windows registry.

Isn't initscripts an Arch-specific project?


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-28 Thread gt
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 03:19:04AM +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
 Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:01:23 +0800
 schrieb Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com:
 
  I was under the impression that windows versions from Windows XP
  onwards had a registry key which enabled them to use UTC time.
 
 Well, I'm not using Windows anymore for many years. So I can be
 wrong, but I didn't know such a registry key, yet.
 
 Now I found one blog and one forum which point to such a registry key,
 but you still have to use a registry editor or tweaker on Windows. So
 it's not a common option in Windows, and I guess it's pretty unknown.
 I'd suggest to better assume that Windows users usual have their
 hardware clock set to localtime.

Well, i sometimes use windows xp, though only for gaming. I didn't know
that windows xp could be set to use UTC, even through a registry entry.

After reading through this thread, i found info on how to enable UTC on
windows. But there have been some bugs reported as well. So, if we
indeed need to discourage use of localtime in rc.conf, firstly there
should be a news entry about this. And if possible, post-installation,
there should be instructions on how to enable UTC on windows.


Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

2011-04-28 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:10 PM, gt codere...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 03:19:04AM +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
 Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:01:23 +0800
 schrieb Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com:

  I was under the impression that windows versions from Windows XP
  onwards had a registry key which enabled them to use UTC time.

 Well, I'm not using Windows anymore for many years. So I can be
 wrong, but I didn't know such a registry key, yet.

 Now I found one blog and one forum which point to such a registry key,
 but you still have to use a registry editor or tweaker on Windows. So
 it's not a common option in Windows, and I guess it's pretty unknown.
 I'd suggest to better assume that Windows users usual have their
 hardware clock set to localtime.

 Well, i sometimes use windows xp, though only for gaming. I didn't know
 that windows xp could be set to use UTC, even through a registry entry.

 After reading through this thread, i found info on how to enable UTC on
 windows. But there have been some bugs reported as well. So, if we
 indeed need to discourage use of localtime in rc.conf, firstly there
 should be a news entry about this. And if possible, post-installation,
 there should be instructions on how to enable UTC on windows.

a [brief] post-installation message seems a good compromise to me --
maybe even the registry file itself too -- but in the absence of both
this is still a good change imo.

setting the hardware clock to localtime is 100% broken and the links
provided in the original announcement explain the ramifications
clearly ... at least i thought there were links somewhere ... wtf,
where did i see them?  it was an arch-related mail because i read the
link ...

at any rate, a 5 second google search turned up:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=WindowsTimeFixUTC.reg
http://kb.norsetech.net/set-windows-clock-to-utc-time/

download.  double-click.  done :-)

C Anthony