Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 14, 2006 06:42 PM
Ubuntu chooses to run the RTC in UTC by default for good reasons:
In UTC there is no switch to daylight saving time. Here in europe we switch into daylight saving time end of march and back to so called winter time (normal time) end of october. The switch occurs at 2am or 3am resp.
A media center pc is normally switched off during the switch. (global warming, you know!)
I use a Linux based PC since 2001 as a digital video disk recorder to perform recording of DVB-S television satellite broadcasts.
For programmed recordings a system clock with one hour off due to a missed switch between day light saving and normal time is a really bad thing.
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UTC versus local time and daylight saving time
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 14, 2006 06:42 PMIn UTC there is no switch to daylight saving time.
Here in europe we switch into daylight saving
time end of march and back to so called winter
time (normal time) end of october.
The switch occurs at 2am or 3am resp.
A media center pc is normally switched off
during the switch. (global warming, you know!)
I use a Linux based PC since 2001 as a digital
video disk recorder to perform recording of
DVB-S television satellite broadcasts.
For programmed recordings a system clock with one hour off due to a missed switch between day light saving and normal time is a really bad thing.
So I recommend to keep the RTC in UTC.
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