Re: [PATCH] UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems

OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-26T16:26:18Z

Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com> writes:

> I do not consider this modifying the design of FAT. FAT does not have
> the concept of time zone, DST, or UTC. It is just a date/time (stamped
> on the volume with no info about what that means). It is customary to
> say these times are in local time, and Windows happens to use it as if
> it's straight local time (Linux tries to emulate this). But using FAT
> to store UTC instead is not changing the design, it is just using it
> differently. I agree this would not be a good idea when sharing a
> volume with Windows, but for cameras, e.g., why not?

UTC itself is not wrong. But, I think *"utc" option* is not way to go.

>> However, I can accept that hack for many broken devices on realworld,
>> but, the modifying design is not right option. Do you see what I want
>> to say?
>
> If it is a hack (and I do not consider it to be so), I still do not see
> why the utc option is a design change - how else would you get the
> desired behavior?

I think we agreed to fix sys_tz is good thing.

If so, I'd like to see "tz=xxx" or something for the future, instead of
"utc", don't you think so? I really hate to add the random options.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>