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From: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:47:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <486B951A.3060600@skyrush.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080701162714.dfdbd7c1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Can we update Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt please?

Here's a patch to that doc file.

	-Joe

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Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>

--

--- linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt.orig	2008-05-31 12:07:25.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt	2008-07-02 09:40:48.000000000 -0500
@@ -96,6 +96,14 @@
 			emulate the Windows 95 rule for create.
 		 Default setting is `lower'.
 
+tz=UTC        -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time.
+                 This option disables the conversion of timestamps
+                 between local time (as used by Windows on FAT) and UTC
+                 (which Linux uses internally).  This is particuluarly
+                 useful when mounting devices (like digital cameras)
+                 that are set to UTC in order to avoid the pitfalls of
+                 local time.
+
 <bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false
 
 TODO

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-02 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-25  5:24 [PATCH] UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems Joe Peterson
2008-06-25 22:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-25 23:56   ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26  2:44     ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26  7:32       ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-26 13:23         ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 14:37           ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-26 15:45             ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 16:26               ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-26 17:06                 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-28 22:24                   ` James Cloos
2008-06-29  5:03                     ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-29  8:20                       ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-06-26 17:21                 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 18:15                   ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-27  5:12                   ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-01 23:25                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02  4:43                       ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-01 23:27                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02 14:47                       ` Joe Peterson [this message]
2008-06-26 16:01             ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 17:08               ` OGAWA Hirofumi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-25 13:31 barry bouwsma
2008-06-25 14:42 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-25 19:35   ` barry bouwsma
2008-06-26  4:24     ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 19:07       ` barry bouwsma

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