Re: [MiNT] timezone change

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>]

On 2000-3-27, Frank Naumann <fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:

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

The user _does_ see the difference, though.  For real people:

here and now == localtime == realtime clock

Basically, as long as the kernel knows it lives at "+/- N hours"
from localtime should be good enough.  The kernel should adapt to
the user's local time, not the other way around.

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