<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Hi!<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I am not sure i understand your questions but please avoid any use of hwclock or /etc/adjtime. As far as i know that is not portable and has every chance to break under MS windows for instance. QDate and QDateTime (and any related K* class) should provide enough information to solve the bug hopefully.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Regards,<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Médéric<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>On Tuesday 03 March 2009 11:47:12 Jain Basil Aliyas wrote:<br>
> Hello All,<br>
><br>
> I am working on a BUGFIX : *115928*, I would like to have some<br>
> clarifications regarding the same.<br>
><br>
> *Some users set their hardware clock to UT, and do not configure their<br>
> systems to convert to local time.<br>
> If possible, KStars should detect this and set the local time correctly in<br>
> this case.<br>
> *<br>
> *Some users set their hardware clock to UT* : This seems to be okay since<br>
> Gnu/Linux allows us to keep our hardware clock to UTC. Also this can be<br>
> tracked by checking the file */etc/adjtime* in which it will be written UTC<br>
> or LOCAL.As far as I understood, *hwclock *can be used to check this.see<br>
> manual page of *hwclock*<br>
><br>
> *do not configure their systems to convert to local time* : This gives me<br>
> some confusions. As we install our Gnu/Linux system, we need to select a<br>
> time Zone and installation cannot continue without that.So Kernel<br>
> automatically converts the time to local time (if hardware clock uses UTC<br>
> or else it will not), based on this and we will be getting the Local time<br>
> automatically. i.e. we may test this argument using hwclock command.<br>
><br>
> hwclock will display only local time. Suppose a hardware clock is set to<br>
> local time. then if we run hwclock, it will show the local time. now we add<br>
> an option --utc to it. this will interpret hwclock set to utc and now the<br>
> result shows a conversion. Hence, I think there is no argument such that<br>
> user donot configure their systems to convert to local time.<br>
><br>
> Can anyone please clarify this thing for me?<br>
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