23 P0P?QP5P;Q 2012B P3. 21:37 P?P>P;QP7P>P2P0QP5P;Q Matthew Dempsky
<matt...@dempsky.org> P=P0P?P8QP0P;:
> There's no reason for the kernel to track the system's timezone
> anymore. B This is handled in userspace by the TZ environment variable,
> and POSIX doesn't even define what happens if you pass a non-NULL
> pointer as the 'struct timezone *' argument to gettimeofday() (and
> settimeofday() has never been in POSIX).
>
> The diff below:
> B - eliminates tz
> B - adds a compile-time check to detect configs with non-0 timezone
> B - changes settimeofday() to return EINVAL when given a non-0 timezone
> B - eliminates the userconf code for changing/printing the timezone
> B - removes clock and msdosfs code that looks at the kernel timezone
>
> After this, we'll be able to move gettimeofday() and settimeofday()
> into libc as user-space wrappers around clock_gettime() and
> clock_settime(), respectively.
>
> Any objections?

This will somewhat break dual-booting machines with Windblows as
second OS. :( But I'm not a developer and do not have any vote, of
course. :)
--
  WBR,
  Vadim Zhukov

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