From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Ethan Benson , Subject: Re: DST flag in NVRAM revisited (was: Re: NVRAM stuck in DST?) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:18:59 +0100 Message-Id: <20020328171859.4716@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: <20020328040442.V26309@plato.local.lan> References: <20020328040442.V26309@plato.local.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >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. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/