DST flag in NVRAM revisited (was: Re: NVRAM stuck in DST?)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:28:27PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote:
> > In arch/ppc/kernel/time.c, kernel time is set from the RTC, implicitly
> > taking RTC for GMT time. Under MacOS, however, it's localtime. On pmac,
> > we use the GMT offset MacOS stores in nvram to correct this, and correct
> > kernel time to real GMT. We also set kernel timezone info, but it's use
> > is discouraged (have a look at man settimeofday).
>
> this is broken.  the kernel should just use the time stored in nvram
> and ignore the crap macos is keeping there regarding time zones.
>
> the solution to the `windows controls the hardware clock' problem was
> made many years ago, hwclock can be told whether the RTC is in
> localtime or GMT, just about every distro asks you this on install (at
> least on x86 debian does on powerpc too).
>
> we should just deal with the RTC exactly how its delt with on x86, if
> you have windows (or in our case MacOS) you tell hwclock the RTC is in
> localtime and let it deal with it, if you don't have MacOS/windows you
> tell it you have the RTC in GMT like its supposed to be and all is well.

Perhaps someone can writes a utility to `patch' MacOS to treat the hardware
clock being in GMT/UTC/Zulu time? I did a similar thing for AmigaOS many many
years ago.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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