Les Mikesell wrote: > Ntp and fedora always run in UTC which doesn't change for local DST Mike McCarty asked: > Are you sure about this, Les? I've got a Fedora install, and I recall > specifically telling it to use hardware time, not UTC, and when I > boot Windows XP it tells me the same time as Fedora. Les replied: > Yes, it can keep the motherboard hardware clock in localtime but internally > everything is UTC and converted to the user's timezone for Mike asked: > I realize this. That isn't what I was questioning. I realize that > the timekeeping routines maintain GMT rather than local time. I think you mis-read Les' original post. I don't think he was trying to say that the hardware clock is (necessarily) UTC -- the hardware clock isn't strictly Fedora and could be on local time without invalidating the first quote. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Words fail me. Thank goodness I can make gestures. aprilcottage.co.uk | -- Mark Hughes
