The only real use case for the RTC TZ is compatibility with other operating systems that don't keep the time in UTC, at least as far as I can tell. However, that is a fairly big one, especially in VM deployments. Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 08:30:48PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 12/19/2013 08:24 PM, joeyli wrote: >> > I agreed, but userspace application should not be too often to >access >> > RTC. Maybe only when system boot and set timezone. >> >> This is, quite frankly, an idiotic argument. > >TBH, I've been struggling with the question too - and it might even be >a >stupid question - but what is that absolute need to be able to get the >TZ in userspace? Why should I care? > >Can we get some use cases for stupid people like me please? > >Thanks. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please pardon brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
