Re: [PATCH] New command checktime

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:15:53AM -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> 
> also, even if one's computer always stays in the same place, 
> Daylight Savings can change the timezone you're in, while 
> grub.cfg stays the same.
> 
> What is it that we're doing when we "ignore" it 
> specifically? Assuming local-time and hardware-clock-time 
> are both UTC? (and therefore if the date specifies a 
> timezone, which is specified numerically, convert the time 
> to UTC before doing anything with it)

The hwclock time is always the same as UTC; except for some very weird
OSes like Microsoft Windows ;-)

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