Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: 2.0.24 clock unstable ? | Date | 6 Nov 1996 18:24:18 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961105090328.5570B-100000@cloud9.net> By author: John Alvord <jalvo@cloud9.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > There was a classic moment reported in early Windows 95, where a routine > is supposed to handle time changes automatically. At 2am, the clock was > reset to 1am. And an hour later the same thing happened. And so on until > the machine was restarted. > > Does Linux or some experimental patch attempt a siniliar time change? >
Linux doesn't deal with this sort of bogosity -- it keeps the system time in UTC, and converts to local time as needed. Someone put in a patch to handle DST changes for filesystems (e.g. MS-DOS) that require the kernel to know the local time; IMHO a much better idea would be to have a user-space daemon (which has access to the timezone tables) do that change.
-hpa -- Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape or form.
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