>>Thus on dual boot boxes you should set hwclock to localtime.
>>The tz issue raises no new issues.
>
>I still think it does (or might). Here's why. If I sometimes boot
>MS-Windows (MSW from now on) then I need to set GNU/Linux to use local
>time. If I'm using local time, somebody needs to reset the hardware clock
>when daylight savings starts or stops (this is an inference I make from the
>need to have MSW do this).
>
>MSW mostly: I let MSW reset the hardware clock, and things are fine when I
>boot into GNU. (As long as I don't start it before MSW when the time zone
>changes).
>
>GNU mostly: Then I need GNU/Linux to reset the hardware clock.
>
>So I have two cases where I use local time. In one case I simply take the
>hardware time as right; in the other, I may want to adjust it.
>
>So I think we need to ask which of these behaviors to follow. Of course,
>that assumes the time zone machinery can support both.
I have no idea how it works. I never use dual-boot. Anyhow, its not
a boot-floppies issue. Can we move on to more important things?
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>