Subject: Re: Clean up DST and TIMEZONE
To: None <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/30/1996 11:31:42
>Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 08:10:59 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk>

>Specifically I suggest to remove or comment out the DST and TIMEZONE
>options for the i386 GENERIC* and INST* kernels, and I also suggest
>to remove the definitions of these options in
>/sys/arch/mac68k/conf/std.mac68k. I don't have the sources for other
>ports, so I can't tell the consequences for these ports.

I have no objection to commenting out these options in the i386
GENERIC* configs, but I would object to taking them out completely.
If they are removed new users will be unable to learn that NetBSD can
cope with an RTC that is set to local time instead of GMT.
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