On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:15:53AM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > also, even if one's computer always stays in the same place, > Daylight Savings can change the timezone you're in, while > grub.cfg stays the same. > > What is it that we're doing when we "ignore" it > specifically? Assuming local-time and hardware-clock-time > are both UTC? (and therefore if the date specifies a > timezone, which is specified numerically, convert the time > to UTC before doing anything with it)
The hwclock time is always the same as UTC; except for some very weird OSes like Microsoft Windows ;-) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
