Re: updating the RTC automagically

Peter Samuelson (peter@wire.cadcamlab.org)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:37:20 -0600 (CST)


[Riley Williams]
> I meant what I said, especially "something like" - as in "tell the
> mount command the relevant timezone by whatever means the author
> thereof implements."

Yeah -- I was just making sure you weren't intending to pass the string
"MST" into the kernel for translation. *Not* that I think *you* are
that stupid, of course, but some people on this thread have suggested
similar things.

> I would image it could be implemented by adding a signed word field
> to the private mount data for the affected partitions, and have that
> store the offset in minutes relating to that partition. It would need
> to be able to handle values between -750 and +750

And don't forget that it needs to be affected by "-o remount". That
way a cron job can keep your legacy filesystem displaying data in the
right legacy way even when you don't reboot twice a year. (In which
case you probably don't dual-boot and may well not need FAT at all, but
that's beside the point.)

-- 
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>

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