Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Laurent Blume
Frans Pop a écrit : > It means that IMO the current patch proposed by Colin is not correct: > - we should make sure we only default to local time on x86, and not on > sparc > - we probably should ask the user what he actually wants because he > may be running OpenSolaris in UTC, for example if

Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 06 November 2008, Laurent Blume wrote: > The executive summary is, yes, by default, on *x86* systems, both > Solaris and OpenSolaris considers the system clock to be the local > time. Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. It means that IMO the current patch proposed by Colin is n

Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Laurent Blume
Hello, Christian Perrier forwarded me the question, as a longtime Solaris and OpenSolaris user, so let me try to shed more light on this. The executive summary is, yes, by default, on *x86* systems, both Solaris and OpenSolaris considers the system clock to be the local time. The longer explanat