Am 29.04.2011 02:43, schrieb Heiko Baums:
Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0200 schrieb Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>:
* We now strongly discourage the use of HWCLOCK="localtime", as this may lead to several known and unfixable bugs
This can lead to problems on multi boot systems on which Arch Linux is installed parallel to Windows. At least older Windows versions can't handle hardware clocks which are set to UTC.
So if there are issues with HWCLOCK="localtime" these should be fixed instead.
Frankly, I don't care. The problems with localtime are so numerous and subtle, handling them all is a waste of time - and it gets worst when you change your time zones often. Using UTC is the logical approach and works without bugs. Every recent operating system I know can handle UTC, even Windows Vista (bugs before SP1, works with SP1 or later) and Windows 7, and Windows XP is so old, it shouldn't be used anyway.