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

H. Peter Anvin
2013-12-20T20:29:51Z

Yes, but the TZ isn't all that critical, either. It certainly doesn't matter at all for a pure Linux system.

Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett-05XSO3Yj/JvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 08:57 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> But we prefer the TAD for that. The case where the EFI runtime is
>the only source of that info is problematic as they are known to not
>work at runtime. We could collect it at boot and then never change it,
>although you end up in definitional issues between EFI and the hw RTC.
>
>Most shipping UEFI hardware has no TAD.

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