Re: 2.0.24 clock unstable ?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
6 Nov 1996 18:24:18 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961105090328.5570B-100000@cloud9.net>
By author: John Alvord <jalvo@cloud9.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> There was a classic moment reported in early Windows 95, where a routine
> is supposed to handle time changes automatically. At 2am, the clock was
> reset to 1am. And an hour later the same thing happened. And so on until
> the machine was restarted.
>
> Does Linux or some experimental patch attempt a siniliar time change?
>
Linux doesn't deal with this sort of bogosity -- it keeps the system
time in UTC, and converts to local time as needed. Someone put in a
patch to handle DST changes for filesystems (e.g. MS-DOS) that require
the kernel to know the local time; IMHO a much better idea would be to
have a user-space daemon (which has access to the timezone tables) do
that change.
-hpa
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