see patch
Created attachment 84464 [details, diff] handbook/2006.0/hb-install-config.xml Windows clock skew notice from main handbook
I don't understand this. Does that suggest that a variable set in rc.conf/clock script in Gentoo has some impact on Windows systems that are dual booted with Gentoo?
Text is in handbook/hb-install-config.xml but not in handbook/2006.0/hb-install-config.xml
i guess it depends on how you look at it windows expects the time kept in the hardware clock to always be "local" ... linux being linux allows you to control the meaning of the value and thoes options are either local or utc so if the value in the hardware clock is interpreted by linux to mean utc, it will save a value into the clock that is a few hours different from whatever the local time is ... then when you boot into windows, it will interpret the value as being a few hours different end result: if you have linux interpret the value as utc, booting into windows and linux will cause the clocks to be off by a few hours (whatever your local offset to utc is) as the user changes the clocks to be correct and the operating systems save different values into the hwclock since we cant control windows behavior, we have to change the linux behavior to treat the value in the hwclock as local
Fixed in CVS. Updated the networked hb-install-config.xml to reflect the networkless version; they now have the same text, because it works very nicely. :)
