On 11/16/18 7:37 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 11/15/18 3:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 11/15/2018 03:17 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >>> In Linux >>> case, it expects UTC. In Windows, it expects local time. >> I haven't had to deal with this for years, but if memory serves, there's >> a place where you can tell Linux that the hardware clock is in local >> time, not UTC. > Ah, yes, there is. You can select the mode when you install the system, > but the "system-config-date" utility offers a tickbox. By default, it's > ticked and that means "System clock uses UTC". > > I also haven't done it in a while. This machine is F28, but started > life as F18 and has been continually updated since then. The same is > true for my other personal systems (they're current F28 or F29 and > started as F20 or earlier). For the last 25 years or so, 95% of the > machines I set up or use are Unix-esque in flavor, so I pretty much > always set up UTC on the hardware clock. Sort of second nature. Well, I'm just installing an F29 MATE VM and on the TIME&DATE screen there is no tick-box to indicate that the HW clock is or isn't "local". Additionally, I could find no trace of "system-config-date" in F29. [root@meimei ~]# dnf whatprovides *bin/system-config-date Fedora 29 - x86_64 - VirtualBox 2.8 kB/s | 6.9 kB 00:02 Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'virtualbox', ignoring this repo. Error: No Matches found -- Fedora Users - The place to go to beat OT dead horses :-) :-) _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
