Re: [MiNT] DATE & TIME cookies

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com> writes:

|> > > I still consider the DATE and TIME cookies to be completely OK, just
|> > > like _CPU or _IDT. They would not slow your system down, would not break
|> > > any compatibility and you wouldn´t even notice they are there.
|> > 
|> > They slow the system down as soon as the native date format within the
|> > kernel is changed to something else.
|> 
|> The native format should remain backward-compatible.

Did anyone propose to change the Tgetdate/Tsetdate syscalls?  The internal
date/time variables are, umm, internal to the kernel, and nobody besides
the kernel has the right to access them directly.

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