On Tue, March 6, 2007 9:34 am, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> >> On Mon, March 5, 2007 11:10 pm, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: >> > Ralph Shumaker wrote: >> >> >> >> Why not run the computers on Universal Time. Local time is only >> >> necessary for the people factor, right? >> > >> > I know someone that does exactly that. The system time is UTC, and >> each >> > person can individually set their own TZ. I immediately saw the wisdom >> > in that, but I don't see my shop changing anytime soon. >> >> I know this is a problem on a dual boot (M$ insists on the clock being >> local), but have never had a problem with Linux on GMT in a mixed >> network. >> So that strikes me as ignorance on their part. > > I am not talking about hardware clock. > > I am talking about /etc/localtime being set to UTC. > > -john >
Why would anyone (besides perhaps an observatory) do that? The system was developed so you wouldn't have to do that. That's just nuts! -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
