Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:55:04 +0100 (CET) From: Ole Kofoed Hansen <okh-linux@post.cybercity.dk> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012022349080.1610-100000@linux.home> Subject: Re: [SLE] time-zone On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:
Quoting Eugene Tyurin <eugene_tyurin@yahoo.com>: [snip]
2 (Preferred). Set bios to GMT. Do the same thing with yast, but tell it that your clock is @ GMT. This way daylight savings will be automatically activated.
I don't know where this myth comes from. My desktop's hardware clock is set on local time and it makes the change to and from daylight savings time just fine. Probably someone screwed up the system clock implementation twenty years ago and the "fix" is still floating around.
This so-called myth comes from the fact that if Linux is not running when the change to/from DST occurs, Linux wont change the time. (How should Linux know that you did not have some other OS running at the time, which made the switch?) If you have the hardware clock set to GMT, it is the locale that translates from GMT to your time-zone that handles how to translate the time depending on the time of year. This will work just fine independently of whether Linux was running when the clock changed. Regards Ole -- Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.