[CentOS] Re: UTC vs local time
Scott Silva
ssilva at sgvwater.com
Fri Aug 24 21:37:19 UTC 2007
Mogens Kjaer spake the following on 8/23/2007 11:17 PM:
> Kenneth Porter wrote:
>> --On Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:53 PM +0200 Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> When to use UTC?
>>> Always :-)
>> Hehe, I'd love to eliminate local time and I particularly hate daylight
>> saving time.
>
> This is irrelevant.
>
> If I set my BIOS clock to use UTC the date command will still show me
> the correct wall-clock time, including DST.
>
> If I dualboot with Windows, Windows will change the clock when DST
> changes, then time will be wrong in Linux, hence the need for the
> two possibilities.
>
> Mogens
You can also tell windows to not follow DST updates.
--
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
More information about the CentOS
mailing list