From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFawh-0007rD-3P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:02:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46655E064A; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E079CE064A for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:02:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so792101fga.14 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:02:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=pRvtR6TdSB9k8Vb+z8PaMeanlaZ1BuMespgtokOHHDY=; b=jv+zV+PxmAbhMs34oGRKLAVtZdT5SskUqg6fi5hpvTP50NCn0DyhYLa9ceOVuQjvxI0FwuVpVLbhz/6oZQXuL/jTynO1EqQXnpDz/SEO5RzZehDt+IxhkyT0Clx8vCb2/BtLUx6TutJlM0nBtwJ5gYuRa7CIG7vdWAxYSX+q4XQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=AplwIx/6LZoi0KIrohpbk/mud+WnXcMWvT4pi80ebgu/cvGzKdUsILwZQcgFWvvz5CscuQjQKLnU6FgUKnzmiLO/GOk19lM40I7WyzIfVC7U2SGoQOwQvJi8fKtjY6eiwV8hq0z9306ZPXYN90hsRN0Gkz3FelPU491LJR7qhA4= Received: by 10.82.171.16 with SMTP id t16mr4378222bue.11.1200600155870; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:02:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.141.15 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:02:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:02:35 +0000 From: Beso To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problem with latest timezone update? In-Reply-To: <002c01c8592d$506ab530$0200a8c0@iwillxp333> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_2317_27614799.1200600155862" References: <478CCFC3.8080503@ercbroadband.org> <5bdc1c8b0801160957s48a2f651ha452ba2fc04e68aa@mail.gmail.com> <1200524500.25783.0.camel@kilik.ubersekret.info> <000601c858a3$d1dcef50$0200a8c0@iwillxp333> <5bdc1c8b0801161737v5d1e71dfi89a3bf4f75e77e0f@mail.gmail.com> <20080117101512.GA28923@litchinko.fr> <5bdc1c8b0801170708p6524b12aw5ad04ced9af43cc1@mail.gmail.com> <001501c85921$21dbb9a0$0200a8c0@iwillxp333> <002c01c8592d$506ab530$0200a8c0@iwillxp333> X-Archives-Salt: ab2eb18f-ced5-4ed8-9143-b84fcef23fd5 X-Archives-Hash: 84de9be052ae852afd63b108d9dc2c63 ------=_Part_2317_27614799.1200600155862 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline i personally have the clock set to UTC and have kde clock set to local. this in my opinion is the best choice and i think that every hw clock should be set to UTC since it represents the computers' time in my opinion. every date calculation is made converting to UTC and calculating the difference between the UTC and the impute date converted. this is the right way to handle dates and this, in my opinion, is the reason to why set the clock to the UTC. 2008/1/17, Drake Donahue : > > OOPS and duh! > Just reread your original! > You want to be on universal time! > Abject apologies and nevermind. > > As I read /etc/init.d/clock, setting CLOCK="UTC" should make > /etc/localtime > irrelevant and unused. > If you are still having problems after the Los_Angeles change maybe > TIMEZONE="UTC" ? > > -- > gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- dott. ing. beso ------=_Part_2317_27614799.1200600155862 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline i personally have the clock set to UTC and have kde clock set to local. this in my opinion is the best choice and i think that every hw clock should be set to UTC since it represents the computers' time in my opinion. every date calculation is made converting to UTC and calculating the difference between the UTC and the impute date converted. this is the right way to handle dates and this, in my opinion, is the reason to why set the clock to the UTC.

2008/1/17, Drake Donahue <donahue95@comcast.net>:
OOPS and duh!
Just reread your original!
You want to be on universal time!
Abject apologies and nevermind.

As I read /etc/init.d/clock, setting CLOCK="UTC" should make /etc/localtime
irrelevant and unused.
If you are still having problems after the Los_Angeles change maybe
TIMEZONE="UTC" ?

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