[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

Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #5 from Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> > - 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.
> 
> I wholeheartedly support that solution, but I may be biassed by the facts
> that I do not interact much with other OSes and that CET/CEST are not far
> from UTC.

Seems like the only sensible option. Welcome to 2014! :)

The concept of "local time" is limited to the RTC-in-local-time mode now.
Systemd will no longer set the kernel's timezone for any normal setup.
Timestamps are UTC now which should make them monotonically increasing,
not jumping backwards.

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