Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Samuelson <> | Date | Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:21:10 -0600 (CST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] FAT timezones [was Re: updating the RTC automagically] |
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[Alexander Viro] > Ouch... Timezone is much nastier than just one offset. First of all, > you can't use the _current_ offset - you should take offset for the > moment of file creation.
I know that. But MS-DOS doesn't know that. It puts the current *local* time right on the platter, and what it reads off the platter it still interprets as *local* time even if it was created in the "other" half of the year. Even NT is that stupid -- I checked.
My patch (if I'm not mistaken) allows Linux to match those semantics, which I agree are quite broken. I don't know any better way to do so, and I *have* heard from people who want this "feature".
> And if you expect that all timezones behave nicely... How would you > like the rules a-la "switch in the last Sunday of April and first > Sunday of October"?
If timezones behaved nicely, there might be a case to be made for putting them in the kernel. I'm trying to avoid that, as any sensible person would.
Peter
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