On Monday 24 January 2005 06:18, Ken Schneider wrote:
I always set mine to localtime and use xntpd to keep it straight. Rarely have a problem. US EST
The right way to have it is this: * Linux only machine: hardware clock UTC + timezone set correctly * Linux and Windows dual boot: hardware clock localtime and timezones set correctly in Linux and Windows, also set Windows to "daylight save time" Tip: to avoid running xntpd all the time on machines that don't need a very precise time synchronization, I have this script: /etc/cron.weekly/synctime ntpdate ntp.pick.a.server.close.to.you hwclock --systohc --utc Make it executable with chmod a+x /etc/cron.weekly/synctime Running xntpd continously takes up a few MB of RAM. IMHO it only makes sense in a few cases (servers).