From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:14:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52B4B331.9000608@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1387571531.17961.6.camel@x230>
On 12/20/2013 12:32 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 12:29 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Yes, but the TZ isn't all that critical, either. It certainly doesn't matter at all for a pure Linux system.
>
> No, but it does matter for a great number of deployed Linux systems.
> Dealing with the timezone over DST changes has been a perpetual problem,
> and if we can make that work then life will be significantly better.
>
And as I pointed out, it can matter a lot for VMs, since the provider
doesn't want to provision the VMs differently for different types of guests.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-20 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-19 7:43 [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME Lee, Chun-Yi
[not found] ` <1387439053-8711-1-git-send-email-jlee-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-19 7:44 ` [PATCH 01/14] rtc-efi: fix decrease day twice when computing year days Lee, Chun-Yi
2013-12-19 7:44 ` [PATCH 03/14] rtc: block registration of rtc-cmos when CMOS RTC Not Present Lee, Chun-Yi
[not found] ` <1387439053-8711-4-git-send-email-jlee-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-19 14:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <6fc9a2f9-eae7-4588-a092-f338053ec96a-2ueSQiBKiTY7tOexoI0I+QC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-20 3:54 ` joeyli
2013-12-20 4:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-19 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <52B309EB.90300-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-19 16:04 ` Alessandro Zummo
2013-12-20 4:05 ` joeyli
[not found] ` <1387512357.3539.4317.camel-ONCj+Eqt86TasUa73XJKwA@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-20 4:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <52B3C5F0.1060303-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-20 5:38 ` joeyli
[not found] ` <1387517916.3539.4446.camel-ONCj+Eqt86TasUa73XJKwA@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-20 21:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <52B4B242.5010002-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-20 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 21:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-12-20 21:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <52B4BA0A.1030902-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-20 21:50 ` Matt Fleming
[not found] ` <20131220215056.GA29501-HNK1S37rvNbeXh+fF434Mdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-20 22:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
[not found] ` <3476450.BMEcId2Lgj-sKB8Sp2ER+y1GS7QM15AGw@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-21 12:21 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-12 0:30 ` [RFT][PATCH] ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before efi_enter_virtual_mode() (was: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME) Rafael J. Wysocki
[not found] ` <2530951.HFPX8MI38t-sKB8Sp2ER+y1GS7QM15AGw@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-12 9:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 2:04 ` Toshi Kani
[not found] ` <1389665096.1792.271.camel-RbGIw1UOYPVo/CpIj0byZw@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14 16:25 ` Toshi Kani
2014-01-12 11:05 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-17 12:20 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-14 4:09 ` joeyli
[not found] ` <1389672548.24105.252.camel-ONCj+Eqt86TasUa73XJKwA@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-14 16:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-01-14 18:00 ` [RFT][PATCH] ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before efi_enter_virtual_mode() H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 20:32 ` Toshi Kani
[not found] ` <1389731547.1792.296.camel-RbGIw1UOYPVo/CpIj0byZw@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-15 7:18 ` joeyli
[not found] ` <2787644.ytU7M33B4r-sKB8Sp2ER+y1GS7QM15AGw@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-21 2:43 ` [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME joeyli
2013-12-20 10:53 ` Thomas Renninger
2013-12-20 22:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 15:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-20 16:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20 16:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-20 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <a049daea-a713-4d06-b35f-61f3bec06ba9-2ueSQiBKiTY7tOexoI0I+QC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-20 20:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-20 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-12-20 21:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2013-12-19 7:51 Lee, Chun-Yi
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