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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: kaos@ocs.com.au, Linux-Kernel (E-mail) <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Getting system time in kernel..
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 10:18:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30732.1002100695@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011003063110.AAA11976@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>
In-Reply-To: <20011003063110.AAA11976@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>


davids@webmaster.com said:
> 
> 	2) Making local time offsets tuneable for each case where you need
> one. The  physical location of the machine might or might not be
> meaningful.

Indeed. So you make the GMT offset a mount-time parameter for your 
filesystem, and the question of how to find the current localtime in the 
part of the world where the machine's primary console happens to stick out 
remains meaningless.


--
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-03  9:18 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
2001-10-03  5:09     ` Keith Owens
2001-10-03  6:31       ` David Schwartz
2001-10-03  9:18         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-10-03  8:33     ` Kai Henningsen

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