On Tue, March 6, 2007 11:33 pm, 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. >
This whole subthread resulted from a misinterpretation of something jhriv wrote (let's blame him! ;) Tracy knows how Unix time works, so do I, so do we all. But I agree that he's a nut. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
