Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 06 November 2008, Laurent Blume wrote: The executive summary is, yes, by default, on *x86* systems, both Solaris and OpenSolaris considers the system clock to be the local time. Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. It means that IMO the current patch proposed by Colin is not

Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Laurent Blume
Hello, Christian Perrier forwarded me the question, as a longtime Solaris and OpenSolaris user, so let me try to shed more light on this. The executive summary is, yes, by default, on *x86* systems, both Solaris and OpenSolaris considers the system clock to be the local time. The longer

Bug#504590: (forw) Bug#504590: clock-setup: OpenSolaris uses local time by default

2008-11-06 Thread Laurent Blume
Frans Pop a écrit : It means that IMO the current patch proposed by Colin is not correct: - we should make sure we only default to local time on x86, and not on sparc - we probably should ask the user what he actually wants because he may be running OpenSolaris in UTC, for example if it's