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From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <dwmw2@infradead.org>, MOHAMMED AZAD <mohammedazad@nestec.net>
Cc: Linux-Kernel (E-mail) <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Getting system time in kernel..
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 22:01:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011003050142.AAA10921@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3458.1002015803@redhat.com>



On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:43:23 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

>mohammedazad@nestec.net said:

>> Any idea how to get the system time in a kernel module.... I tried  this
>>in solaris... but i am getting only the GMT (that too elapsed  time) how do
>>i convert this to my locale time....  

>You can't. You shouldn't need to convert to localtime inside the kernel.
>What, precisely, are you trying to achieve?

	As an example, a filesystem might internally store local times in its 
inodes. You may not be free to change the on-disk format.

	DS



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-03  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-02  9:14 Getting system time in kernel MOHAMMED AZAD
2001-10-02  9:43 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-03  5:01   ` David Schwartz [this message]
2001-10-03  5:09     ` Keith Owens
2001-10-03  6:31       ` David Schwartz
2001-10-03  9:18         ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-03  8:33     ` Kai Henningsen

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