From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel (E-mail) <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Getting system time in kernel..
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 15:09:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31512.1002085772@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:01:41 MST." <20011003050142.AAA10921@shell.webmaster.com@whenever>
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 22:01:41 -0700,
David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:
> As an example, a filesystem might internally store local times in its
>inodes. You may not be free to change the on-disk format.
Whose local time? The local time where the machine is or the local
time of the user accessing the machine from the other side of the
world? There is a very good reason why timestamps are GMT (UTC).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-03 5:09 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 [this message]
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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