Hello, Zhaoming Luo, le mer. 20 nov. 2024 20:17:48 +0800, a ecrit: > On 11/9/24 10:58 PM, Sergey Bugaev wrote: > > I know that RTC can be configured to either represent local time, or > > in UTC. MS Windows prefers the former, GNU/Linux (or rather systemd?) > > prefers the latter [6]. Would it maybe make sense for the driver to > > have an --option to *pretend* the RTC stores UTC time when it's > > actually storing local time, transparently converting the time on > > read/write? The driver would learn the local timezone the same way all > > processes do (tzset?). > > > > [6]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time > > I think we don't need to add an option to pretend the RTC stores UTC time > when it's actually storing local time, because I think the Hurd expects RTC > storing UTC time.
Debian GNU/Hurd can support both, it's up to hwclock to compute what it wants to put in the RTC, and is configured in /etc/adjtime, see man hwclock. Samuel
