rtc again...

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Iain Sandoe wrote:
> I seems to me (in summary) [since I started this thread :-) ]:
>
> we can:
>
> (a) Fix up time in the kernel to emulate UTC
> (b) Fix up time in the kernel to emulates Local Time

Please also think about people who really run their RTC in UTC, who don't run
MacOS anymore, or who simply don't have a PowerMac.

> Which (or will both) of these works with hwclock (since that is the
> mechanism at 2.4.0 ?)  and for those of us switching to-and-ffo is also
> being used at 2.2.17

Hwclock is userspace. It depends on the distro.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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