[COLUG] Linux and UTC

[Rick Troth]

Internally,  yes.  And notably,  file time stamps are in UTC.
(May very with the FS driver.  Certainly EXT2 stores times in UTC.)

The PC hardware clock may still be set to local time.
But when the system is up and running,  internal time is UTC.

With Linux,  the file /etc/localtime is either a sym-link to
(my preference)  or a copy of  (how SuSE does it)  the correct
zone offset info file from /usr/share/zoneinfo.

-- R;

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, jep200404 wrote:

> Is the following true from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Zones#Unix
>
>    Most Unix-like systems, including Linux and Mac OS X, keep system time as UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
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