Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 08:57 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> But we prefer the TAD for that.  The case where the EFI runtime is the only source of that info is problematic as they are known to not work at runtime.  We could collect it at boot and then never change it, although you end up in definitional issues between EFI and the hw RTC.

Most shipping UEFI hardware has no TAD.

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