On 11/19/18 5:51 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> Sure, but if the user is in the United Kingdom where they use GMT, then 
> presumably they
> would run their entire system in GMT, whereas other locations may or may not 
> want to, so
> the motherboard should provide that option, and I have had motherboard that 
> do offer the
> option, and I have always set them to local time.

People in the "UK" won't use GMT/UTC  as they also "spring forward" and "fall 
back".

The time zone of a system is establish by the symbolic link /etc/localtime.

Their link will be set to "../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London"

>
> If the time configuration is being set by the OS, and F28 doesn't seem to 
> have the
> options to do that setting, especially for daylight savings time, how does 
> daylight
> savings time get set/unset correctly, or is the fact that this F28 system has 
> been
> upgraded from older Fedora distributions that did have the options, and the 
> option to
> tie the time maintenance to a Network Time Clock, that those options have been
> retained but hidden by F28? 

The zoneinfo files have all the info necessary to determine when "daylight" 
time begins
and ends.

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