On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>wrote: > > It would appear that on 2011-05-02, > www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-1/ did say: > > > We now strongly discourage the use of HARDWARECLOCK="localtime", as this > > may lead to several known and unfixable bugs. However, there are no plans > > to drop support for "localtime". > > And it would appear that /etc/rc.conf now does saith: > > > # HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result > > # in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for > virtualization) > > # Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged. > > Since I multi-boot AND do keep my hardware clock set to local time, I'm a > little bit concerned by this statement. It gives me two questions. > > 1) just what "Known" bugs that this could lead to are "UNFIXABLE"??? > See http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-April/019775.html and other posts in that thread.
