On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/16/2011 06:17 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi >>> >>> With timezone I have a more strong points: >>> >>> 1) System should use UTC. >> >> Then you loose information. System time is already in UTC from the >> kernel, /etc/localtime provide information about the current timezone >> as well. I think people would find it surprising if we do something >> non-standard here. > > I agree. >>> >>> 2) Daemons should use UTC (logger, cron, ...) >> >> The daemons know both UTC and the current localtime, so they should >> know themselves which one to use. >> > Fixme if I am wrong: > So (for logger) during entering/exiting from DST period you will see > duplicate entries and "no activity" during one hour. > For cron its a bit intelligent to avoid a task can be executed two times or > zero times.
I would say that if programs use localtime and cannot deal nicely with DST, then that's a bug (they should use UTC directly). It would be wrong to force all daemons to use UTC all the time though. -t
