On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Bastien Nocera bnocera@redhat.com wrote:
The timezone configuration is only needed for dual-boot installations where the BIOS is in local time instead of UTC, as I don't expect the installer to write anything but UTC dates on disk.
I wonder why 20 years ago the ambiguity of timezone and DST was not written to configuration on disk, so that we could just tolerate a hwclock set to current local time?
And now I wonder why we ignore the UEFI spec which rather clearly expects the hwclock to be set to current local time, and includes timezone and DST information with GetTime() and SetTime().