RTC hardware clock option

RTC hardware clock option

[Antonio Miguel Trindade]

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I just would like to ask all of you what has the option "RTC stores time in 
GMT" have to do with APM... The hardware clock in my machine stores time in 
GMT, but I do not want APM, so why do I have to have APM just to have that 
option enabled...

Perhaps the intention is to remove that depency, but it has not been done out 
of lazyness... (no pun intended, Linus).

Yours truly,
António Trindade

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Re: RTC hardware clock option

[Walter Hofmann]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Antonio Miguel Trindade wrote:

> I just would like to ask all of you what has the option "RTC stores time in 
> GMT" have to do with APM... The hardware clock in my machine stores time in 
> GMT, but I do not want APM, so why do I have to have APM just to have that 
> option enabled...
> 
> Perhaps the intention is to remove that depency, but it has not been done out 
> of lazyness... (no pun intended, Linus).

There is no dependency: APM needs to know this to restore the clock after
returning from stand-by.

Without APM there is no need to know this (for the kernel). You can still
run your hardware clock with GMT.

Walter

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