Subject: Re: double summertime :-(
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/24/2002 18:09:33
From: "David Laight" <david@l8s.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:52 PM


> Changing RTC_OFFSET would require a summer kernel and a winter kernel!
> But I suspect that everytime I load win98 it will advance the clock
> another hour!

No it doesn't it does it the first time you boot it after the switch over
from BST to GMT or GMT to BST (or your favorite time zones 8)

> Actually I think the RTC isn't set until after some filestore has been
found
> (there is a sanity check ensuring that the time hasn't moved by more than
> 5 years) so maybe the offset could be in filestore?

Yes the fs contains a time somewhere.

Chris