On 11/19/18 5:08 AM, Stephen Morris wrote:
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From recollection, which may not be completely accurate, the Asrock motherboard that I
have now is the first motherboard I've had where the bios has not offered a setting
to
set the system clock to GMT/Local, and I have always set the system clock to local
because Windows, which I tri-boot with, used to have issues with the system clock being
GMT. Having said this, on this motherboard there isn't any option to change it, the
front screen is showing local time and that time is correct for daylight savings time,
even though the machine wasn't switched on when daylight savings time kicked in.
I also seem to remember that there used to be an option in KDE->System Settings to
configure whether or not the system clock was running local or GMT time, which I
can't
find now. The only setting I can find is to set the timezone and to set the date and
time automatically. From memory there used to also be an option in KDE->System
Setttings
to have the clock maintained by a Network Time Clock where you could also specify the
URL to connect to, which I used to have set to an Oceania location,
but I can't find that anymore either.
Think about it for a moment. Does it make any sense for a motherboard to have knowledge
of time zones?
The same motherboard is used all over the world and unless you update the BIOS they would
remain static in their knowledge to time zones.
I've pointed out where time zone information is kept. Those files are provided by
the
tzdata package. Here is the start of the "changelog" for that package.
* Mon Nov 12 2018 Patsy Griffin Franklin <pfrankli(a)redhat.com> - 2018g-1
- Rebase to tzdata-2018g
Includes changes for tzdata-2018f.
- Volgograd will change from UTC+03 to UTC+04 on 2018-10-28 at 02:00.
- Fiji will end DST on 2019-01-13 instead of the 2019-01-20 as
previously predicted.
- Most of Chile will end DST on the first Saturday in April at 24:00
and restart DST on the first Saturday in September at 24:00.
- Morocco will change from UTC+00/+01 to permanent +01 effective 2018-10-27.
* Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2018e-2
- Rebuilt for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed May 16 2018 Patsy Franklin <pfrankli(a)redhat.com> - 2018e-1
- Rebase to tzdata-2018e
- North Korea changed from UTC+8:30 to UTC+9 on May 5, 2018.
- In this update, the upstream project now defaults to using
the "vanguard" data implementation which includes negative DST offsets.
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