[arch-general] Daylight Saving Time canceled in Ukraine, will Arch know?

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 19:29:17 +0300, Barton wrote:
> How would Arch Linux handle it for the users who do not have NTP
> configured?



Btw, this has nothing to do with NTP (or other time synchrnonisation
mechanisms).

The system's internal clock uses epoch time, which is timezone
independent.  The local timezone is only used when *displaying* times
in human readable form (eg.  date, ls -l, ...).

NTP keeps the epoch time correct, but does not care about time zones.


	Geert


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