Re: [MiNT] timezone change

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

Hello!

> > No, there are no conflicts. As I said the timestamps are automatically
> > converted by the kernel to the right format. And the kernel know which xfs
> > have UTC timestamps and which xfs have not.
> 
> How does MiNT know what UTC is?
> Is there an offset defined somewhere to give MiNT this information based
> on the localtime that my RTC is set on?

There is a tool called 'tzinit' for that, part of the MiNT-Lib.

You install the MiNT-Lib, then you set your local time zone (link a file
to /etc). Then you add "exec tzinit" to your MiNT.CNF. That's all.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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