[arch-projects] [initscripts][RFC] deprecating TIMEZONE from rc.conf

[Tom Gundersen]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 06:17 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
>>>
>>> With timezone I have a more strong points:
>>>
>>> 1) System should use UTC.
>>
>> Then you loose information. System time is already in UTC from the
>> kernel, /etc/localtime provide information about the current timezone
>> as well. I think people would find it surprising if we do something
>> non-standard here.
>
> I agree.
>>>
>>> 2) Daemons should use UTC (logger, cron, ...)
>>
>> The daemons know both UTC and the current localtime, so they should
>> know themselves which one to use.
>>
> Fixme if I am wrong:
> So (for logger) during entering/exiting from DST period you will see
> duplicate entries and "no activity" during one hour.
> For cron its a bit intelligent to avoid a task can be executed two times or
> zero times.

I would say that if programs use localtime and cannot deal nicely with
DST, then that's a bug (they should use UTC directly). It would be
wrong to force all daemons to use UTC all the time though.

-t