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- From: wutcd@chemnitz.guug.de (Joerg Wunsch)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd & timezone
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:35:42 GMT
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- Well folks, have seen the problems, too. In early 0.0 times, i've had
- a look at those kernel sources which deal with CMOS time, and i remember
- a comment of Bill saying ``probably we should keep CMOS time at UTC'' or
- so. Of course, he is right. Well Americans, think far beyond your own
- boundaries. Modern BSD's have a well designed time zone system on high
- level. This respects the fact that European countries generally switch
- to DST on other days than U.S., so the simple algorithm in the low level
- kernel sources won't solve the problem even if it works fine. So i don't
- know whether it's better to keep out all of TZ handling off the kernel,
- and shouldn't we solve the problem of DOS not being able to handle the
- UTC CMOS time???
-
- With best wishes
- J"org
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