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By the way, the -L flag in timesync is a real hack.  There's no way
to know when your 'other OS' decides to apply daylight savings time
(now there's an even bigger hack) so you have to run the other OS
often enough to make sure it gets done.

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> Should the hardware clock actually be set to GMT?

It's your call.  If you have an ntp server it 
doesn't matter what it is set to -- timesync
will ignore it.  If you don't, then the default 
setup assumes GMT, but timesync -L exists
solely to coexist with operating systems
that insist on local time.

Russ

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