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On 11/08/2010 09:38 AM, Matt Brodeur wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 07:41:10AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> The fall time change is interesting because it repeats an hour. This is >> why Unix chose to work with GMT originally. If an application decides to >> use local time, it could do strange things for that hour. > And the spring time change skips an hour, which can be equally > "interesting". Of note, cron will happily run the same jobs twice on > fall-back day if you happen to think 01:30 is a fine time to schedule > something. It can get messy if, for example, that's a convenient time > to run backups. > > Not that I learned that the hard way... Back to Ed's original post. I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed on my netbook which was hibernating all weekend. After opening it up this morning with an uptime of 4 days, the time displayed was correct. On this system I do have it set to local time because it dual boots with Windows 7. Additionally, I'm sure I have NTP running as I do on most of my systems. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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