Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 10:37:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Reinier Bezuidenhout <Reinier.Bezuidenhout@KryptoKom.DE> Cc: Reinier.Bezuidenhout%KryptoKom.DE@Cirdan.KryptoKom.DE (Reinier Bezuidenhout), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading CMOS date values Message-ID: <199810211737.KAA00804@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 12:51:33 %2B0200." <199810211051.MAA13488@borg.kryptokom.de>
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> > Hi ... > > > > I'd like to read the CMOS values for the day, hour and minutes. > > > > I'd like to get the day of the week, hour and minutes without > > having to call microtime and then convert the values. > > > > Has anyone done this before ?? > > Just have to add that I want to do this in the kernel :) You almost certainly *don't* want to do this in the kernel. If you want to do time conversions, do them in userspace where you have enough information at hand to do them correctly. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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