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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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