Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Peter Samuelson <> | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:37:20 -0600 (CST) | | Subject | Re: updating the RTC automagically |
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[Riley Williams] > I meant what I said, especially "something like" - as in "tell the > mount command the relevant timezone by whatever means the author > thereof implements."
Yeah -- I was just making sure you weren't intending to pass the string "MST" into the kernel for translation. *Not* that I think *you* are that stupid, of course, but some people on this thread have suggested similar things.
> I would image it could be implemented by adding a signed word field > to the private mount data for the affected partitions, and have that > store the offset in minutes relating to that partition. It would need > to be able to handle values between -750 and +750
And don't forget that it needs to be affected by "-o remount". That way a cron job can keep your legacy filesystem displaying data in the right legacy way even when you don't reboot twice a year. (In which case you probably don't dual-boot and may well not need FAT at all, but that's beside the point.)
-- Peter Samuelson <sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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