On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:54 AM, James Cameron<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:31:15AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: >> (it actually seems that the kernel might be treating the >> daylight savings time field from the RTC a little too casually.) > > chuckle. yes, it seems likely that setting everything to zero would be > seen to be the right thing to do ... but struct tm is old, very old, > long before the idea of zero being safe.
Reminds me of a ruling from the US Patent Office I was involved in years ago. They said zero was not a number. :) > > i'm very much aware of tm_isdst because of my previous support job, and > living in a country with state based summer time that changes almost > every year. or more often. seriously. > > it's very tempting to push for solar time. ;-) > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
