[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to configure OI for proper daylight savings adjustments.

[Hans J. Albertsson]

And how do we,I,somebody go about requesting a change in the default 
install behaviour in this respect?

On 2013-04-01 16:17, Jim Klimov wrote:
> On 2013-04-01 13:07, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>> Jim,
>> Excellent attitude..
>> However:
>> That is not how OI Live DVD install sets things up, and I'm a bit
>> surprised about your implicit statemet that rtc -c will shift the PC
>> realtime clock at DST shift times... Is that true? Does rtc actually
>> shift the MB RT clock??
>>
>> That is SICK and WEIRD behaviour.
>
> I believe it does (shift the clock) and is (bad, especially for
> dual-boot systems each of which shifts the clock after DST switch
> day), so for over a decade I set up systems (including many of
> Windows servers I come by) to run in UTC and can't really well
> comment about behavior of systems configured otherwise.
>
> I think "rtc -c" does change the PC clock, and I think we've had
> a Solaris customer with weird failures due to this, but I can't
> now recall what the problem (inconvenient symptom) was. Fixing
> the RTC setup did take care of that, though.
>
> Just think of running a server available (interactively) for users
> from almost a dozen of timezones that Russia spanned, and think
> what other timezone than common UTC would make sense as a default
> one for a low-level? ;)
>
> //Jim
>
>
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