Bug#540152: e2fsck, journal replays and timezones

2009-10-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
I wonder... considering Message #64, why is localtime used by ext2fs anyway? With all times in UTC (or rather in whatever time_t is) this kind of problems certainly couln't happen at all? To reproduce this, Theodore could do it during a DST transition, I'd think... or temporarily use a European

Bug#540152: e2fsck, journal replays and timezones

2009-10-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:03:31PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: considering Message #64, why is localtime used by ext2fs anyway? With all times in UTC (or rather in whatever time_t is) this kind of problems certainly couln't happen at all? Ext2fs doesn't use localtime. The problem is some