Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] Support timezone of ACPI TAD and EFI TIME

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From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 20:32:12 +0000
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On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 12:29 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Yes, but the TZ isn't all that critical, either.  It certainly doesn't matter at all for a pure Linux system.

No, but it does matter for a great number of deployed Linux systems.
Dealing with the timezone over DST changes has been a perpetual problem,
and if we can make that work then life will be significantly better.

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