Felix Miata <mrmazda <at> earthlink.net> writes: > > Just as a workaround, you CAN make a Windows box use UTC for the RTC... > > Multiboot is not a universe limited to Windows and Linux, and certainly not > only the latest version of either. And, there's a whole LAN to consider, not > one PC in isolation. AFAIK, Windows is the only OS that has trouble using UTC for the RTC. > When I acquire a new PC or motherboard, I set its clock to match the rest of > the clocks in the building, neighborhood and city, so the sun is overhead > somewhere around noon. That's how time is supposed to be. It's up to a PC to > adjust to me and my environment, not vice versa, and when I boot a floppy I > don't need to look at a watch, TV or wall clock to see what time it really is. If you're using a laptop and travel between time zones, there is no permanent local time. And even if you stay in one place, if your local time is subject to Daylight Saving, the fact that it can go backwards when changing from DT to ST causes problems for the OS. See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html . To avoid that, the time used by the RTC should increase monotonically. Also, when people share files, if their RTCs are in different time zones, it's impossible to know exactly how to interpret a file's timestamps, since they depend on the originating PC's time zone. The only way to avoid these problems is for everyone to have their RTC set on the same monotonically increasing time, and UTC is the natural choice. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
