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[ILUG] Daylight savings time question

[ILUG] Daylight savings time question

Paul Jakma paulj at itg.ie
Tue Jun 20 12:20:18 IST 2000


On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Colm Buckley wrote:

> There's a kernel option to cope with this situation -
> CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT ("RTC stores time in GMT"). 

i think this only applies to APM.. :( 

what you want to look at is the boot scripts config. Eg on RedHat
/etc/sysconfig/clock controls the settings:

ZONE="Europe/Dublin"
UTC=true
ARC=false

the UTC line should be set depending on whether you run doze or not.

> If you are flipping
> back and forth between 'doze and Linux, you should set this option to
> 'N', which basically tells Linux to keep the system clock at local
> time.  It'd be nicer if Microsoft fixed Windows, of course, in fact I
> believe this is a fix scheduled for the next release of W2k, code-named
> "Porcus Aerialus".
> 
>               Colm
> 
> 





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