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Re: [MiNT] timezone change



> The drawback of a localtime kernel clock is however, that the system clock
> will take a leap as soon as you inform the kernel about the timezone in
> use.  Jörg's current timezone is CEST-2.  When he boots at six o'clock the
> kernel will think at boot time that it is 6:00 UTC.  Then he runs tzinit,
> sets the timezone CEST-2 and the kernel realizes that it is really 4:00
> UTC.  All timestamps written between system start up and that clock warp
> will be wrong.

So what about moving the tzinit functionality into kernel and configure it
from MINT.CNF? Then there would be no timestamps written because the
MINT.CNF is (hopefully) evaluted first.

Petr