D'Arcy J.M. Cain writes:
> Thus spake Joel Reicher
> > > You shouldn't have to recompile the kernel for DST.  Just set rtc_offset 
to
> > > zero and symlink /etc/localtime to the proper file in /usr/share/zoneinfo
.
> > 
> > Sorry, I should have been more specific. I need to keep the hardware clock
> > to local time because I also have DOS/Windows on my system.
> > 
> > I imagine there are others in the same boat.
> > 
> > Or am I missing something? Is there a better way to do this?
> 
> Ah.  That's a problem then.  Hmmm.  If I had to do that I would set
> up rc.local to run rdate and do something similar in DOS/Windows.

That's repugnant.

There's a reason I left rtc_offset in, which was so people could
handle this sort of thing cleanly.

Perry