[Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

[Ahmad Samir]

On 28 April 2015 at 13:40, Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com> wrote:

> > On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > > Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local
> > > timezone,
> > No, it's not. This has been written about many times, but in short:
> > - the information about the timezone used is not stored in RTC,
> >   so all users of RTC need to be configured to use the same timezone
> >   externally
>
> It surprises me that we see these issues even with UEFI, which seems to
> include support for timezone and DST information [1]. I can confirm this
> myself, I have UEFI with Fedora 21 and Win7 at home, and I noticed that
> there seems to be a fsck running on every Fedora boot. I haven't had time
> to debug it properly yet, but it doesn't seem to work properly out of the
> box. Moreover, if I look into `journalctl -b`, I see time shifted during
> the boot process (which kind of messes up the history whenever I search in
> it). I haven't reported any bug yet, but there's certainly something not
> working out of the box there.
>
>
This is the bug that started this thread:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201978


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