F12-alpha: superblock always in future

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 09/01/2009 12:12 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:48 -0500, Todd wrote:
>
>   
>> I do a lot of distro testing, and this really bugs me.  Fedora
>> defaults to the system clock being set to UTC instead of local time,
>> and resets the hardware clock to what it thinks is the correct time.
>> The problem is when you reboot into another distro that assumes the
>> system is on localtime and freaks out a bit since the file system has
>> time stamps in the future.  I know there are probably very good
>> reasons for Fedora defaulting to the system clock being UTC, and I
>> also know that I have the option to uncheck the box during install,
>> but I would really like to see the default changed.
>>     
>
> But then it would screw up in exactly the same way for any other OS that
> expects the system clock to be UTC. We can't magically be right every
> time. Given that, we should choose the best default, and defaulting to
> system clock being UTC is the best, because it's _correct_ - that's the
> sane way to set things up. Most modern distros and OSes (I think even
> Windows 7...) default to having the system clock set to UTC.
>   

Mobile phones, handheld GPS units, etc. do the same: store time in UTC 
and let the users select time zone they are in. Makes sense particularly 
if you travel across timezones -- no need to update time on the unit, 
just the timezone.

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thufor