On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 02:23:07PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote:
| dual booting with linux these days i am now totally lost.
| seems like the xandros distro picks up the how clock
| but the set /etc/localtime didn't do anything.  date
| shows the same as the bios time...
| 
| could the linux dualbooters help me set up the system
| so the two os do not fight over time?
| 
| what is the proper setup?
| 
| bios: UTC
| os: timezone
| 
| or
| 
| bios: localtime 
| os: localtime and pretend i am in a timezone? (ntpd gets crazy this way)
| 
| or
| 
| bios: timezone
| os: timezone

I don't quite understand these three options you give. Both OS and
BIOS should run in UTC. You configure your environment with TZ which
will default to /etc/localtime. That is, do not explicitly set TZ and
you get the timezone pointed to by /etc/localtime (should be a symlink
to /usr/share/zoneinfo/...), export TZ=Europe/Zurich and get the times
as used in Switzerland. Kernel and NTPd just use UTC.

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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