Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Avi Schwartz <avi@×××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:08:23
Message-Id: 1016301886.29749.15.camel@seahorse
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions by Michael Lang
1 On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 12:51, Michael Lang wrote:
2 > At 01:19 PM 3/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:
3 >
4 > >1. In either the "/etc/localtime" or the "/etc/rc.conf" section add a note
5 > >about setting "localtime" or "UTC", I thought that most people use
6 > >localtime, so maybe it should be default in /etc/rc.conf(which is
7 > >unrelated to this of course).
8 >
9 > What's the verdict on this one? I think I put localtime, thinking UTC
10 > might mess up my dual booting back to Windoze, but not sure.
11
12 For dual boot systems the recommendation should be to use local time.
13 On single boot system it should be UTC as it takes care automatically of
14 daylight saving switches.
15
16 --
17 Avi Schwartz
18 avi@×××××××××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New Install Instructions Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>