On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 23:33 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Christoph Maier wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:23 -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: > >> On Tue, March 6, 2007 9:34 am, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > >>> 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! > > > > I shall pass this question on to Tracy Reed. > > > > He's also one of these nuts. > > Huh? I don't set my timezone to GMT. I keep the hardware clock in > seconds since the epoch GMT (like all Unix's) and my timezone set to PST > (currently) so I get a correct local time when I use the date command.
Well, ok ... when it comes to earning your money, you set your clock to PST. However, when it comes to spending your money, you would want to think in UTC, wouldn't you? Christoph -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
