-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-03-26 15:20, 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.
Actually, (almost) all windows versions. W7 and W2k8 apparently accept utc, with a hidden regedit variable. I knew of this variable at least a year or two ago, but the documentation I found of it was discouraging, warned of other problems.
(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
All correct. :-)
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.
For Linux, no change, you only need to change the timezone of the user, at the place he is. For Windows, the clock changes, and the cmos too. A nightmare if you double boot. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9wb10ACgkQIvFNjefEBxptmQCg3H5AzOvNXhK3QDjv0NNvVzzv f9YAoL/vazSx6U5Dv+IT//Jo/eyRVgTA =skbY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org