Re: MiNTlib pl46: UTC vs. local time

[walra@moacs.indiv.nl.net (Waldi Ravens)]

In <9503212054.AA00093@jelal.hb.north.de>, J"urgen Lock wrote:

> Andreas Schwab writes:
>
> > If you want to set your hardware clock to UTC, f.ex. to ease the
> > coordination with other OS's like Linux, here are patches to the MiNT
> > library to treat the time from GEMDOS as UTC instead of local time.
> >...
> hey i have an idea :)  should we add this to UNIXMODE?  (most of) its
> (UNIXMODEs) defaults will be binary-configurable in 47 anyway so this
> should cause no problems?

Fine, as long as the default is UTC.

>  and another idea:  should the kernel be changed to know about local
> time and return that for TOS domain processes?  for those old
> source-less binaries you cannot just re-link...

But where should the kernel be looking for the timezone info?
Some variable in mint.cnf perhaps? No transformation if it
ain't set? (e.g. LOCALTIME=u:\usr\lib\timezone\localtime).


Waldi