Time and Date page inaccurate regarding Linux?

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Time and Date page inaccurate regarding Linux?

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The Time and Date page, section Which Time, discusses whether the battery-backed clock should be treated as set to local time or UTC. It concludes with this statement:
The stupid thing to do is to force the clock to be only one way or the other, as both Linux and Windows do.
I recall Linux gaining an option to set which mode the clock is in many years ago, possibly as far back as 2001, perhaps even earlier. Before I fix the wiki page, can anyone say whether it still has the option?
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Yes, Linux still supports setting the hardware clock to the local time zone.

Windows supports setting the hardware clock to UTC, too.
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Both Windows and Linux have a way to change this. For Windows there is a registry key somewhere (sorry I don't remember the specifics).
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Thanks everyone; page fixed.
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