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Message-ID: <87k5gct64x.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:15:10 +0900 From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> To: Joe Peterson <joe@...rush.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems Joe Peterson <joe@...rush.com> writes: > OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: >> If so, I'd like to see "tz=xxx" or something for the future, instead of >> "utc", don't you think so? I really hate to add the random options. > > One question: do you see the "tz=" option having "xxx" being a numerical > offset or a time zone. Ah, sorry. I was imagining, e.g. POSIX TZ string like "EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0 " or something, it is not a simple numerical. > If the latter, then the DST situation could be > solved (and tz=UTC could be used to get the behavior I like, but I still > wonder if a timezone feature on FAT is useful. Also, would it not > require the kernel to look up timezone info and keep track of DST > changes? I thought the trend was to push that kind of thing into > userland... Yes. If it can do in userland (on embeded system too), it's very good. (also, nls stuff is same situation.) But, I'm not sure yet, need to think about it. -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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