On 12/20/2013 12:32 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. > And as I pointed out, it can matter a lot for VMs, since the provider doesn't want to provision the VMs differently for different types of guests. -hpa -- 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
