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
