On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 02:20:30PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
Whatever is in the CMOS doesn't affect the kernel's system clock. That is UTC as Werner said.
This thread's been going long enough that perhaps it's worth restating the clocks:
(1) hardware/CMOS/BIOS clock - only used at booting. Should normally be UTC but some versions of Windows required it to be set in the local time of the administrator.
(2) kernel's internal time - always UTC
(3) system-wide time - should be set to the time zone of the machine that is running the system
(4) user time - individually set to the local time of each individual user - defaults to the system time
N.B. That's for a computer kept in a single place, though possibly with users around the world. I don't know what the convention is on a mobile computer, though (1), (2) and (4) are unchanged.
Indeed ... please compare with http://en.opensuse.org/SDB%3AConfiguring_the_clock I've written with my HOWTO in the lunch hour. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org