[haiku] Re: Time change philosophy
- From: pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 18:18:32 -0800
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 11:30:06PM +0100, François Revol wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
I just tried rebooting into BeOS in my normally-Linux machine, and
it had the correct time without complaint. But that machine has a UTC
hw clock.
Is it that you only get the pop-up if the hardware is on local time?
Just realized that both my BeOS and Haiku machines had a local-time clock.
[Not any longer... (:-/)]
I suppose it can use an offset if you have a fixed UTC clock, but not
if it's local... Is there any reason at all for preferring the latter?
-- Pete --
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