[arch-general] OK so HARDWARECLOCK="localtime" is "strongly discouraged" BUT???

[Buce]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at 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.