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

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Wed Apr 29 15:14:26 UTC 2015


On Wed, 29.04.15 16:46, Lubomir Rintel (lkundrak at v3.sk) wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 14:00 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On 04/28/2015 03:52 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > 
> > > And no, this *never* worked fully on Linux, and it never will, 
> > > sorry.
> > 
> > But it worked sufficentily most of the time ... ever since!
> > 
> > The current situation means,
> > - Fedora does not support multiboot'ing at all,
> > - Fedora is preferring to be militant against Windows
> > - Fedora is hostile and ignorant against its users.
> 
> It seems to be that either way this gets solved it leaves unhappy
> users and developers behind. Given the scope of the issue is wider
> than just a package maintenance issue, I'm wondering if FESCO could
> help getting it settled?
> 
> Would it make sense to create a FESCO ticket and let it vote on the
> matter? (Work around in Fedora vs. hardcode UTC and encourage the fix
> in Windows NT?)

Hmmm?

This is unfixable, FESCO can decide what it wants. You cannot fix RTC
management, since you cannot change Windows...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat


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