Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 May 2012 16:34:16 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86-64: use EFI to deal with platform wall clock |
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On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 04:30:11PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 25.05.12 at 17:24, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: > > Looks good, but should we also be changing get_time to return in UTC? > > Imo that would be a separate change though.
Sure, but probably a useful one. I've had complaints from firmware vendors that we're not handling the timezone properly here.
> > What are the expected semantics for get_wallclock? > > Not sure - I think both are permitted (just like for the legacy RTC), > with the expectation that early user mode would tell the kernel.
Yeah. I think get_time and set_time should probably both be paying attention to sys_tz and converting appropriately.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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