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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds()
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 08:57:16 -0700
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On 05/14/2013 12:45 AM, Gu Zheng wrote:
>  From 18072c1c3506a7e37ee485307a2c343efe5af4d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 15:45:24 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Kernel/time: Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds()
>
> Introduce a new timestamp function local_time_seconds() to hide the conversion of system time in UTC to local time seconds.

So, why is this useful/needed?

thanks
-john