[haiku] Re: Time change philosophy
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 23:30:06 +0100
Le 7 nov. 2010 à 23:22, Stephan Assmus a écrit :
> Hi Pete,
>
>> More curiosity than anything else, but why do BeOS and Haiku just
>> *tell* you that your clock is wrong when there's a standard/daylight
>> change, but Linux quietly resets the clock itself? Is there some
>> technical reason, or is it simply thought preferable to let the
>> user know what's happening? [I think I prefer the Linux way...]
>
> Have you considered what happens when you boot into Linux and then later into
> Haiku or vice versa, if both of them changed the time silently? IMHO, we
> should make it the standard behavior to update the time from the network, but
> in case this is impossible, the current behavior would still be the correct
> thing to do.
Indeed, though multiboot is not generally done by normal users, it's really
annoying for people with many OSes when they step on each other's toes.
And since we can't claim world domination just yet we have to cope with less
mannered systems.
François.
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