[systemd-bugs] [Bug 81538] Allow to disable setting the kernel time zone

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81538

--- Comment #3 from Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> ---
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.

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