From: Avi Schwartz <avi@CFFtechnologies.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions
Date: 16 Mar 2002 12:04:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1016301886.29749.15.camel@seahorse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020416133723.00b25248@mail.cybrains.net>
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 12:51, Michael Lang wrote:
> At 01:19 PM 3/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >1. In either the "/etc/localtime" or the "/etc/rc.conf" section add a note
> >about setting "localtime" or "UTC", I thought that most people use
> >localtime, so maybe it should be default in /etc/rc.conf(which is
> >unrelated to this of course).
>
> What's the verdict on this one? I think I put localtime, thinking UTC
> might mess up my dual booting back to Windoze, but not sure.
For dual boot systems the recommendation should be to use local time.
On single boot system it should be UTC as it takes care automatically of
daylight saving switches.
--
Avi Schwartz
avi@CFFtechnologies.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-16 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-15 19:19 [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions Nathan Nutter
2002-04-16 17:51 ` Michael Lang
2002-03-16 18:04 ` Avi Schwartz [this message]
2002-03-16 20:34 ` Daniel Robbins
2002-03-20 17:23 ` Steve Ackerman
2002-03-20 17:48 ` George Shapovalov
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2002-03-15 6:34 Michael Lang
2002-03-15 7:39 ` George Shapovalov
2002-03-15 16:10 ` Michael Lang
2002-03-15 16:58 ` George Shapovalov
2002-03-15 15:56 ` Dan Armak
2002-03-15 17:11 ` Daniel Robbins
2002-03-15 20:35 ` Michael Lang
2002-03-15 22:14 ` Daniel Robbins
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