Time to agree on time...

[Mark Knecht]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> I don't have FC1 installed yet, but RH 9, and most previous, have that
> info in /etc/sysconfig/clock.  Mine reads
> 
> UTC=true
> ARC=false
> 
> 
>>   Also, is UTC the defacto right way to do this, or is there a better, 
>>more standard way. I've never seen a good page on making this choice.
> 
> 
> I prefer UTC=true because the hardware clock never has to be shifted
> for DST.  But Windoze won't deal with that properly.  But in an
> all-Linux machine, shouldn't be a problem.
> 

Thanks Bob. I've set both Gentoo and Fedora as you suggest, and then 
reset the hardware clock and gotten ntpd running, at least on Gentoo 
right now. I'll try this out for a while and see what happens.

Thanks for your help,
Mark