RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib Non-Bug

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Guido Flohr
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 4:17 PM
> To: MiNT mailing list
> Subject: [MiNT] MiNTLib Non-Bug
>
> Maybe it would be better if the MiNTLib always ignored leapseconds when
> dealing with timestamps.  But the preferred solution, at least for file
> systems that are only available under MiNT (minix, ext2, fnramfs, spin?,

Why would it make a difference whether the file system is only available for
MiNT or not??

> pipe, proc, shm, ...) would be if the kernel would also use UTC for
> timestamps.  There is a potential problem with timestamps in local time.

As the kernel is using the (GEM)DOS format, it's probably a lot of work to
put any kind of conversion into the XFS itself -- so if at all the kernel
should do the conversion, and this of course needs to be optional.