HEADS UP several very old sysconfig files are being deprecated

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Sat Oct 27 18:17:29 UTC 2012


On Oct 26, 2012, at 8:30 PM, John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 01:24 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> 
>> I highly recommend against setting the hardware clock to localtime but
>> because I know some of you guys are dual booting with windows and to
>> lazy to fix the registry here's how you set the hardware clock to use
>> localtime instead..
>> 
>> # timedatectl set-local-rtc 1
> 
> This all looks good, especially keeping this.  It isn't just coexistence
> with Windows that makes it a good idea to put local time into the CMOS
> clock.  

FWIW, UEFI spec prescribes setting local time + timezone + DST.


Chris Murphy




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