Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Nov 1999 06:19:46 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] FAT timezones [was Re: updating the RTC automagically] |
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On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > [Alexander Viro] > > Hold on. Why not use sys_tz? settimeofday(NULL, &tz) from userland > > utility and there you go. Nothing except the sucking filesystems will > > be affected. Why do you need per-fs granularity? > > Because Linux allows per-user timezones and users are often allowed to > mount their own FAT filesystems. > > That might sound contrived, and it almost is, but in my case, I run my > machine's system time at UTC, partly because I want to make sure things > like my FTP server use UTC, but as a user I have TZ=CST6CDT. If I (as > a user) mount a floppy, the mtimes should match the mtimes on our > legacy systems.
What does it have to your TZ? Check where the kernel uses sys_tz, please. They are not correlated. If you mean that users have FAT filesystems for various timezones and mount them on the same box... Show me such animal, please.
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