On 2012/04/24 16:27, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > 23 P0P?QP5P;Q 2012B P3. 21:37 P?P>P;Q P7P>P2P0QP5P;Q Matthew Dempsky > <[email protected]> P=P0P?P8QP0P;: > > There's no reason for the kernel to track the system's timezone > > anymore. B This is handled in userspace by the TZ environment variable, > > and POSIX doesn't even define what happens if you pass a non-NULL > > pointer as the 'struct timezone *' argument to gettimeofday() (and > > settimeofday() has never been in POSIX). > > > > The diff below: > > B - eliminates tz > > B - adds a compile-time check to detect configs with non-0 timezone > > B - changes settimeofday() to return EINVAL when given a non-0 timezone > > B - eliminates the userconf code for changing/printing the timezone > > B - removes clock and msdosfs code that looks at the kernel timezone > > > > After this, we'll be able to move gettimeofday() and settimeofday() > > into libc as user-space wrappers around clock_gettime() and > > clock_settime(), respectively. > > > > Any objections? > > This will somewhat break dual-booting machines with Windblows as > second OS. :( But I'm not a developer and do not have any vote, of > course. :)
It seems simpler to use NTP to fetch a correct time, than to build a custom kernel.
