> So -- we make the VFS know about time-zone changes, surely that would
> work? We don't even need this to be overly clever, we would just make
> it a simple integer offset from UTC (kernel) time and have a userland
> daemon re-sync. this when timezones shift (eg. daylight savings
> time).
No, this doesn't help. You need to be able to convert arbitrary dates
in the past for which knowledge of current timezone offset doesn't
help at all.
Have a nice fortnight
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