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SubjectRe: kernel knowledge of localtime (user-level implememntation)
Hello,

> So -- we make the VFS know about time-zone changes, surely that would
> work? We don't even need this to be overly clever, we would just make
> it a simple integer offset from UTC (kernel) time and have a userland
> daemon re-sync. this when timezones shift (eg. daylight savings
> time).

No, this doesn't help. You need to be able to convert arbitrary dates
in the past for which knowledge of current timezone offset doesn't
help at all.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule."

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