On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 09:16 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
I'm tri-booting between Win11, Fedora and Ubuntu. I used to have the bios time configured to local time and found that Linux assumed the bios time was UTC, and didn't provide an easy way of changing that, and hence was always 10 hours out, Windows used to allow configuration of that.
It used to be dead easy to set Linux to UTC or localtime, there was a tickbox on the graphical tool for setting the clock (during the install, and later on the running OS). Doing the same thing on Windows required delving into the registry after first finding out how to do that over the web. I have had recent Linux installs presume localhost, then had to figure out how to change it because they didn't make it easy.
At least the option's still findable in MATE on CentOS 7, it's a tickbox in the timezone tab in system-config-date. I can't see one on Fedora 36, and I don't recall whether I got asked during the install.
Another of those things that got hidden by people who think we don't need to see these options.