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!!!!