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Subject: Re: [9fans] installation timezone
Date: Mon,  6 Mar 2006 17:51:14 +0100
From: uriel@cat-v.org
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I think the -L should not be there by default, dualbooting to Windows is by far
not the common case.

uriel

>> if the default is gmt i would set up the /adm/timezone/local to gmt by
>> default too for new systems. (just for consistency?)
>
> The contents of /adm/timezone/local have no effect on what
> time(0) returns during the install.  They only affect what time zone
> is used to *print* the time.
>
> They do matter if you're running aux/timesync -L, because -L says
> assume that the PC clock is set to local time instead of GMT.
> If your local PC clock is set to GMT (e.g., you are not dual-booting
> with Windows) then just remove the -L from termrc after installing.
> This is not hard.
>
> Russ