From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUoSn-0003dz-0i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 11:12:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BUoSl-0003dP-9j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 11:12:32 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BUoSl-0003dK-6V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 11:12:31 -0400 Received: from [144.254.224.140] (helo=ams-iport-1.cisco.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BUoSL-0001nH-6J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 11:12:05 -0400 Received: from cisco.com (edinburgh.cisco.com [144.254.112.76]) by ams-core-1.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i4VFC01P028404 for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:12:01 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from dfawcus@localhost) by cisco.com (8.8.8/2.6/Cisco List Logging/8.8.8) id QAA22490 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 May 2004 16:12:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 16:12:00 +0100 From: Derek Fawcus Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Changing RTC from UTC to local time Message-ID: <20040531161200.C25801@edinburgh.cisco.com> References: <40B8A0B1.3040601@fabianowski.de> <200405291023.18228.kyle@silverbeach.net> <40B8DB75.5050005@fabianowski.de> <20040529231327.GC1690@sentinelchicken.org> <40B91B89.9000500@fabianowski.de> <1085892773.25895.68.camel@aragorn> <40BA36CA.6070805@fabianowski.de> <877jus3dp4.fsf@Janik.cz> <40BB4657.10407@bellard.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <40BB4657.10407@bellard.org>; from fabrice@bellard.org on Mon, May 31, 2004 at 04:51:03PM +0200 Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 04:51:03PM +0200, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > > Before there is support for a configuration file, I can add a default > mode where QEMU scans the partition table and switches to localtime if > the boot partition is of FAT type Sounds like overkill, and won't always give the correct result. i.e. my laptop boots from a FAT fs, but only has Linux on it. The FAT fs simply being used as a simple boot / recover FS. I believe that plan 9 does a similar thing (9fat fs == FAT), with a FAT based boot filesys. I've certainly seen other OS's that take a similar approach. So I'd suggest that the offered patch be chosen - but simply pick if you want local or UTC as the default. DF