On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Kurt J. Bosch <kjb-temp-2009@alpenjodel.de> wrote:
This turns all hardware clock write access (setting and adjusting) the into an optional daemon. (FS#13684) Should fix issues when using ntpd (kernel 11-minute-mode) and also in case of dual-boot. Further more the out of box HARDWARECLOCK setting is changed to "UTC" and "localtime" is discouraged because it can really mess up things especially with 'hwclock --adjust'.
In addition to fixing up the things mentioned by Dave, I suggest you drop the change of the status message, and split the "UTC as standard" into a separate patch. Maybe mentioning that using localtime might cause "known, difficult to diagnose and unfixable bugs". In general this looks fine to me, but we should reach a consensus on the daemon v. var issue. It was my suggestion to use a daemon, but I don't feel strongly about this. I saw that Dave just posted a new mail so I'll reply to that with my reasons, as I think it is relevant. Cheers, Tom