On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp@ttlc.net>wrote:
It would appear that on 2011-05-02, www.archlinux.org/news/initscripts-update-1/ did say:
We now strongly discourage the use of HARDWARECLOCK="localtime", as this may lead to several known and unfixable bugs. However, there are no plans to drop support for "localtime".
And it would appear that /etc/rc.conf now does saith:
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result # in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization) # Note: Using "localtime" is discouraged.
Since I multi-boot AND do keep my hardware clock set to local time, I'm a little bit concerned by this statement. It gives me two questions.
1) just what "Known" bugs that this could lead to are "UNFIXABLE"???
See http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-April/019775.html and other posts in that thread.