time difference

[Andreas Schwab]

Charles Twardy <ctwardy@mail.csse.monash.edu.au> writes:

|> Andreas has said only that he had the correct time under OSX.
|> Almost certainly that means he does NOT have the correct time under 
|> Linux anymore (unless he uses ntp to reset it).

Of course I do have correct time under Linux as well, even without ntp.

|> Linux and OSX fight over the system clock and booting to OSX resets the 
|> hardware clock, usually swapping GMT and local, or doing something which 
|> has the effect of putting your clock off by that difference (though I'm 
|> not sure whether it puts it off + or -).

I never put local time in the hw clock, down that path lies madness.

Andreas.

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