From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 6 03:40:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19832 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 03:40:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19819; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 03:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00695; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:39:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:39:23 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" cc: Doug Rabson , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/include clock.h cpu.h src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c machdep.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 6 Oct 1998, Dag-Erling C. [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > Doug Rabson writes: > > Log: > > Add support for adjkerntz (largely untested). > > Is that really necessary? adjkerntz is only used if your system clock > is set to local time instead of UTC, and the only situation in which > that would be the case is a machine that multiboots FreeBSD and DOS / > Windows 95, which obvoiously "can't happen" on an Alpha. Unless > Windows NT also expects the system clock to keep local time rather > than UTC... My understanding is that NT will want the clock to keep local time. Certainly when I multiboot a machine between 95 and NT, I don't change the clock all the time, even in summer. My long term plans still include supporting AlphaBIOS which will allow multibooting NT and BSD. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039