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Re: [MiNT] timezone change

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Subject: Re: [MiNT] timezone change
From: Guido Flohr <guido@freemint.de>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:25:29 +0200
In-reply-to: <200004032327.a26084@su.maus.de>; from Jörg Westheide on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:27:00PM +0200
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Hi,

On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:27:00PM +0200, Jörg Westheide wrote:
> GF>A few timestamps will always be wrong.  The last access time of
> GF>/sbin/tzinit, of /boot/mint/minix.xfs, /boot/auto/mint.prg, ...
> TOS-FS supports access times?

Ooops, not yet. ;-)

> GF>But I think I have given a lot of reasons why a UTC clock is superior
> GF>to a time keeping model based on local time.
> Yes, and I think this whole thread hadn't come up if this explanation would
> have been added to saying that the RTC should run in UTC

IIRC (yippie!) I had already given these explanations several times,
especially after I have implemented the new time stuff in the kernel.
That's why they came only step by step this time.

Ciao

Guido
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- Re: [MiNT] timezone change
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- [MiNT] timezone change
  - From: Joerg_Westheide@su.maus.de (Jörg Westheide)

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