Re: Two bugs in kernel time code

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:23:04 +0200 (MET DST)

Philip Gladstone wrote:
> My revolting approach to this is to have a sysconfig variable that gives
> the offset of the CMOS clock from UTC. This defaults to 'unknown'. If it
> is known, then the CMOS clock is updated with the correct hour (etc)
> values.

How about just calculating the difference between the unix clock and
the CMOS clock. If that's within 10 minutes of a whole number of hours,
then you can safely round it to "a whole number of hours".

Roger.

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