[arch-general] New kernel/updates - Is the timezone information messed up for dual-boot configs?

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Tue Sep 22 15:41:44 EDT 2009


On Tuesday 22 September 2009 01:29:03 pm Alessandro Doro wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:17:55PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Listmates,
> >
> > 	I have been chasing my tail on the madwifi issue and I think I have
> > found the problem. It's not madwifi at all, it's the timezone handling.
> >
> > 	My box is dual-boot, Arch - Vista. Accordingly, the hardware clock is
> > set to localtime:
> >
> > LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
> > HARDWARECLOCK="local"
> 
> Recent changes:
> HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
> 

Thank you Alessandro,

	I looked over the rc.conf.pacnew file, but missed that subtle change. That 
explains a LOT!

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