I know that. But MS-DOS doesn't know that. It puts the current
*local* time right on the platter, and what it reads off the platter it
still interprets as *local* time even if it was created in the "other"
half of the year. Even NT is that stupid -- I checked.
My patch (if I'm not mistaken) allows Linux to match those semantics,
which I agree are quite broken. I don't know any better way to do so,
and I *have* heard from people who want this "feature".
> And if you expect that all timezones behave nicely... How would you
> like the rules a-la "switch in the last Sunday of April and first
> Sunday of October"?
If timezones behaved nicely, there might be a case to be made for
putting them in the kernel. I'm trying to avoid that, as any sensible
person would.
Peter
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