<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - Allow to disable setting the kernel time zone" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81538#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - Allow to disable setting the kernel time zone" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81538">bug 81538</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:kay@vrfy.org" title="Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>"> Kay Sievers</a> <pre>Hmm, yeah, it is mess. We should try hard to avoid config options to configure that mess though, and define an acceptable behaviour as the way systemd as the OS works. We have several options: - Teach systemd to update the kernel's TZ when DST changes; it is in the TODO, infrastruture for it is there, just not implemented. It will not be entirely race-free though, not sure if we really should try that ... - Define that "local" is the time without DST, we just upload the local time without the DST offset; that way the kernel's "local" might be off by an hour, but still closer than UTC and not jumping. Very simple and maybe a reasonable compromise. not sure. - Define that the kernel's "local" is so backwards, that the file systems, SCSI, netfilter are just too broken to be supported that way; that we just ignore all ideas of "local" and define the use UTC and accept hickups for multi-OS boots. Sounds a bit radical, but the most appealing of all options, to just not support that kind of stupidity in 2014.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>