Time on Linux and Meeting stuff

[ccb at acm.org]

JJ Neff Sez:
> Winders sets the hardware clock to whatever local time is, whereas Linux
> assumes that the hardware clock is set to GMT and uses a file 
> /usr/lib/timezone
> to set the system time to local (ie GMT + 5)


Linux is actually flexible about what your harware clock is doing but
I think this is handled differently on different distributions.  My
RedHat 6.2 system has a file that describes to the system what you're
doing with time - /etc/sysconfig/clock.  When UTC=true in the file,
Linux assumes that the system clock is giving GMT time.  If you are
running your system in a dual-boot configuration, you're better off
setting UTC=false and letting Winders do what it can't help doing to
your clock.


ccb


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