[fpc-devel] NowUTC in the RTL

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>>
>> what does that have to do with the issue ?
>>
>> The linux kernel returns UTC time, it always has. Now() converts this to local time.
>> (as does libc). All NowUTC needs to do is return the kernel time.
>
> Could be. I thought that was the old situation, but assumed now that
> timezone is an userland thing, it returned the HW clock. But I assume it
> needs some form of timezone too for certain protocols.
>
> So who maintains the difference between hardware clock and UTC for the
> kernel's benefit then, and where is that maintained?

Userland (=libc) tools, hwclock and the like ?

Michael.