On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:45 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
I don't recollect the question being asked during install, but I do
forget stuff.
Post install, you get the chance to set the clock. If your system is
NOT dual boot, you'd never notice any difference between local or UTC
time, so long as nothing went wrong, the system would take care of
everything for you.
i.e. If you, or NTP, sets your time to 4pm, and you set your timezone
correctly, you'll get the right time showing, whatever system your
hardware clock is set to.
True enough as long as the machine is up across the transition. If the
machine is down across the transition and your hardware clock is local
time, you'll need to set the new correct local time before booting. With
a UTC hardware clock, that step is never necessary. (If you run NTP, I'm
not sure if the system clock will be reset immediately on boot or if it
will go through a catch-up phase.)
But if you dual boot, you'd have to set your system up to play nicely
with all the OSs that you use.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
