On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Adam Williamson<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:48 -0500, Todd wrote: > >> I do a lot of distro testing, and this really bugs me. Fedora >> defaults to the system clock being set to UTC instead of local time, >> and resets the hardware clock to what it thinks is the correct time. >> The problem is when you reboot into another distro that assumes the >> system is on localtime and freaks out a bit since the file system has >> time stamps in the future. I know there are probably very good >> reasons for Fedora defaulting to the system clock being UTC, and I >> also know that I have the option to uncheck the box during install, >> but I would really like to see the default changed. > > But then it would screw up in exactly the same way for any other OS that > expects the system clock to be UTC. We can't magically be right every > time. Given that, we should choose the best default, and defaulting to > system clock being UTC is the best, because it's _correct_ - that's the > sane way to set things up. Most modern distros and OSes (I think even > Windows 7...) default to having the system clock set to UTC. Is there a way to just get the time from a ntp server and leave the system clock alone? -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
