From: benh@kernel.crashing.org
To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: DST flag in NVRAM revisited (was: Re: NVRAM stuck in DST?)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:18:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020328171859.4716@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020328040442.V26309@plato.local.lan>
>we should just deal with the RTC exactly how its delt with on x86, if
>you have windows (or in our case MacOS) you tell hwclock the RTC is in
>localtime and let it deal with it, if you don't have MacOS/windows you
>tell it you have the RTC in GMT like its supposed to be and all is well.
Which means that during boot, the kernel will have a wrong (local) time
instead of UTC. That can be annoying.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-28 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-07 7:59 NVRAM stuck in DST? Michel Lanners
2001-12-07 21:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-12-07 21:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-03-28 11:28 ` DST flag in NVRAM revisited (was: Re: NVRAM stuck in DST?) Michel Lanners
2002-03-28 13:04 ` Ethan Benson
2002-03-28 16:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-03-28 23:31 ` Ethan Benson
2002-03-29 0:47 ` bug: kernel timer added twice at e3259abc Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-03-28 17:18 ` benh [this message]
2002-03-28 23:28 ` DST flag in NVRAM revisited (was: Re: NVRAM stuck in DST?) Ethan Benson
2001-12-07 22:09 ` NVRAM stuck in DST? Greg Noel
2001-12-08 11:24 ` Gabriel Paubert
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