[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0200
> schrieb Tom Gundersen <teg at 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.
>
> Heiko
>

I was under the impression that windows versions from Windows XP
onwards had a registry key which enabled them to use UTC time.