of course that is just a symlink change of /etc/localtime
I'm going to be moving from the US to UK for nine months then back.
I know some odd things can happen if you end up with future dated files and whatnot.. So I just wanted to hear something from some people who are quite likely more experienced than myself
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It must be no problem with the clock and changing the symlink must be enough. Another way would be to use a clock applet where you can change the time zone, so it will be no need to change the symlink or the clock.
A good practice with the kernel is to select the option that tell the rtc to use GMT (somewhere in ACPI configuration). With it, the OS have only to interpret the right time and will never change the time on the motherboard, even when changing from summer to winter time.
Another issue is if you have a double boot. With local time and double booting, each OS will change the time when shifting from winter to summer time, and you will get the wrong time all the time. In this case, you must use GMT in all the kernels. The only problem with it is at windows use by default the local time in the rtc (It is why you always get a little box that ask you to change the time when it's changing time). So you have to change this to GMT in the windows configuration and it will be fine.
