civileme wrote: > The install uses the time on your computer than makes the correction as soon as you >enter time > zone which is way too late to update the time stamps on your files. What I forgot >to do was to > change the bar from America:NewYork To Europe:Paris when I was hurrying through an >install, > but since I did choose a good ntp server, my time was correct here, so I didn't >notice. Civileme, Thanks for the explanation above. <aside> I always have some problems with Linux times (I'm a newbie), including: - the concept that the time kept by the CPU is more accurate than the time kept by the battery powered clock. (This may have been true at one time, and I recognize the potential problems of a clock that is not monotonically(sp?) increasing, but the problems associated with using the battery clock as a master are no worse than using any atomic powered clock over the network with respect to the possibility of occasionally needing to adjust the CPU clock. Oh wait, unless adjustments to match the atomic clock are always in the increasing time direction, which might be a good assumption.) - currently (and for the entirety of my current install of Mandrake 7.2 with MandrakeFreq), my computer clock is 4 hours behind local time, even though my battery clock is set to GMT and my time zone is set correctly (AFAICT). </aside> The point: I would eventually like to see time in Linux "rationalized" somehow. A step in this direction could be for Mandrake's install procedure to ask the user for a time zone very early in the install process, remember it, and, among other things, set the time stamp on the installed files correctly. Not an urgent thing, but I think a nice enhancement for some day. (And maybe there needs to be some discussion at that time about what is the proper time stamp -- should it be local time (I think so) or GMT?) Randy Kramer PS: I'm glad you're back (so to speak) -- your answers are always very helpful. Please keep up with your sleep and health -- I'd like to see you stick around.
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