[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.04.1-2

Heiko Baums lists at baums-on-web.de
Thu Apr 28 20:43:07 EDT 2011


Am Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:33:57 +0200
schrieb Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>:

> * We now strongly discourage the use of HWCLOCK="localtime", as this
> may lead to several known and unfixable bugs

This can lead to problems on multi boot systems on which Arch
Linux is installed parallel to Windows. At least older Windows versions
can't handle hardware clocks which are set to UTC.

So if there are issues with HWCLOCK="localtime" these should be fixed
instead.

Heiko


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