XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:20:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:   
      
   > Actually, I believe Linux will /always/ set the internal clock to   
   > the UTC time, regardless of how the timezone is set. Windows, on the   
   > other hand, assumes its the local time and offsets accordingly. Of   
   > course, loading into Linux from Windows doesn't screw up the time...   
      
   Sounds like it is Windows getting screwed up.   
      
   System time in UTC is the only convention that makes sense. Convert   
   time to some suitable local time zone before displaying it to the   
   user, by all means. But don’t assume that all the users on a   
   particular system are in the same time zone.   
      
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