Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME

H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20T21:14:25Z

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