[Kstars-devel] Some Doubts : Please Help

[Médéric Boquien]

Hi!

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.

Regards,

Médéric

On Tuesday 03 March 2009 11:47:12 Jain Basil Aliyas wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am working on a BUGFIX : *115928*, I would like to have some
> clarifications regarding the same.
>
> *Some users set their hardware clock to UT, and do not configure their
> systems to convert to local time.
> If possible, KStars should detect this and set the local time correctly in
> this case.
> *
> *Some users set their hardware clock to UT* : This seems to be okay since
> Gnu/Linux allows us to keep our hardware clock to UTC. Also this can be
> tracked by checking the file */etc/adjtime* in which it will be written UTC
> or LOCAL.As far as I understood, *hwclock  *can be used to check this.see
> manual page of *hwclock*
>
> *do not configure their systems to convert to local time* : This gives me
> some confusions. As we install our Gnu/Linux system, we need to select a
> time Zone and installation cannot continue without that.So Kernel
> automatically converts the time to local time (if hardware clock uses UTC
> or else it will not), based on this and we will be getting the Local time
> automatically. i.e. we may test this argument using hwclock command.
>
> hwclock will display only local time. Suppose a hardware clock is set to
> local time. then if we run hwclock, it will show the local time. now we add
> an option --utc to it. this will interpret hwclock set to utc and now the
> result shows a conversion. Hence, I think there is no argument such that
> user donot configure their systems to convert to local time.
>
> Can anyone please clarify this thing for me?

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