Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:59:13 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: kernel knowledge of localtime (user-level implememntation) |
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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 -- 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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