synchronize time

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 17:15 +1030, Tim wrote: 
> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 15:57 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Well your point is incorrect. Cups browsing did not work if UTC was
> > not set. TThe clocks were set correctly. The hardware clock was
> > operating on UTC time and the system clock was running on local time.
> 
> You just don't get it, do you?!  You've even said it above:
> 
>     Your hardware clock is running on UTC
> 
> Therefore, you ***MUST*** set your clock configuration to say that UTC
> is set.  If you do not, then your time is set wrong.  
> 
> Correct setting of your time is dependent on the hardware clock, setting
> the UTC/not-UTC flag, and setting the correct timezone.  The combination
> of them all allows the computer to work out what localtime is.
> 
> Again, I repeat, it's not a CUPS fault that it doesn't like UTC set.
> It's your fault that you're running your clock on UTC but saying that it
> is not.
> 
> The UTC/not-UTC setting is for the hardware clock, not the software
> clock.
> 
> If you run the hardware clock on UTC, then you set the UTC flag for UTC.
> 
> If you run the hardware clock on local time, then set the UTC flag for
> local time.
> 
> CUPS will work either way.  It doesn't care whether one clock is set to
> UTC, or not.  What it cares about is the correct time.
> 
> But if you set your hardware clock on UTC, but say it's running
> localtime; or, if you set your clock on localtime, but say it's running
> on UTC; you ARE going to have problems, because doing so is just plain
> wrong.
> 
>    *** THE UTC FLAG IS FOR THE HARDWARE CLOCK ***
>                                ^^^^^^^^
> I've said this about three times, in three emails, what's so hard to
> understand about it?
> 

It is not hard and that is what I have been saying from the beginning.


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