22 Jul
2018
22 Jul
'18
9:34 p.m.
Robin Gareus <robin(a)gareus.org> writes:
On 07/22/2018 06:14 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
UNIX filesystems store in UTC, realtime clocks tend to be set in local
time by default (or UTC if you don't dual-boot and are not interested in
having to adjust for daylight saving time), MSDOS filesystems (as used
in camera media etc) store in local time.
Robin Gareus <robin(a)gareus.org> writes:
Why do you think this would be affected by the unix locale? You only mentioned language and locales. Those
are independent and
separate of the keyboard layout, so I misunderstood what you meant.
and yes, keyboard layouts should be configurable. but locales not so
much.
The wrong time zone leads to bad file metadata. When you do automated
processing with, say, Make and have created files with a future data,
stuff will not work amicably.
Also when you change timezones, only the display
changes, not the
timestamp of files on disk.
Depending on the file system and whether or not your RTC is set to UTC
or (more often) local time.
I never had issues with gnu/make using the localtime,
it uses stat,
unix-time (UTC).
But time does not fall from the trees.
--
David Kastrup