On Mon, October 30, 2006 9:47 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 23:33, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Er... in Linux the system clock always uses UTC time, regardless of what the users' settings are. It is the CMOS clock that can use UTC or Local Time, for the use of that other OS when you double boot.
With this definition I'm at a loss what you mean by system clock then.
The internal kernel timer counts the number of seconds since January 1 1970
Yes. The dual boot thingy is - IIRC - because DOS/Windows kept time differently than does WinNT (a.k.a. XP/Vista), which is "a better Unix than Unix." It used to cause me no end of frustration on my 486 laptops which ran DOS and WinNT 3.51 on different partitions.
There is only one system clock that keeps time in a human format, and that is the CMOS clock
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