timezone setting

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:46:37 +0000, Nik N wrote:

>> ... Well we used to call it [Greenwich] Mean Time. So just set the time
>> to London England about and it will be right.
> 
> (Well, my users might then conclude that the server is actually located
> in Britain; this would definitely rub them the wrong way!  :)
> 
> As somebody else correctly noticed, if that was done, the issue of
> "daylight saving" would again invalidate the idea of ALL geographically
> dispersed but cooperating computers running on the same time.
> 

Well, afaik the Linux kernel keeps the systemtime in UTC. This is then 
corrected by the value in /etc/timezone to the local time. I wonder, but 
it might be that when you delete/rename /etc/timezone the only known time 
in your computer might be utc, it will not know how to "correct" it to 
local time.

Aart