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Re: [MiNT] timezone change

To: Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] timezone change
From: Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 17:33:04 +0300
Cc: mint@fishpool.com
In-reply-to: <20000401205853.B482@tubul.dascon.de>
Sender: owner-mint@fishpool.com

On 2000-4-1, Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de> wrote:

> *If* it is possible to hook between Gemdos and XBIOS, it
> should be quite easy to run the RTC in UTC and convert
> between that and local time, so that Gemdos runs in local
> time, but the RTC runs in UTC - it is just a matter of
> determining the offset between localtime and UTC one during
> startup and adding/subtracting that offset on all XBIOS time
> calls.

That would not really solve the problem, because the RTC chip
would be in UTC instead of localtime; reboot in single-TOS to use
Calamus or MIDI apps and your timestamps are not in localtime
anymore.

-- 
Martin-Éric Racine  http://funkyware.atari.org/  Atari TT030 FAQ
Lappeenranta, Finland.  Surfing on a Intel/Microsoft-free GEM OS

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