On Fri 29 Apr 2011 23:00 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can someone pls clarify what exactly is broken about localtime? I've been > > using it for years without any (noticable) issue. I'll be happy to switch > > over if I need to, but I'd like to understand the problem(s) first. > > There are some implementational problems and some conceptual ones. > Please have a look at the link I gave to the systemd page for a brief > description as well as > <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html> for the very > interested. Sounds like a hardware problem then. Maybe the bios should tell the OS if the clock is in localtime or UTC. ;)