Re: [MiNT] timezone change

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

Hello!

> > Other OSes (except m$ stuff) leave the system clock to UTC and remember
> > the offset, so if that's your reference, do the same in MiNT. :-)
> 
> I would prefer to set the system-clock to local-time, since I also use
> TOS and MagiC from time to time (quite often on my TT actually) and
> would like to avoid conflicting timestamps.

There are no conflicts.

The FAT filesystems must convert to localtime and MinixFS and ext2-FS run
always UTC.

It make things much easier and faster if the kernel run in UTC. And no
application see the difference.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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