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   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-12-24 2:04 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Why wouldn't all the users of a system located in one time zone also be   
   in that same time zone?   
      
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