From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: chinmaya@innomedia.soft.net
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: system 'date apis' in linux kernel
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:01:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152615677.18028.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B3805C.9000608@innomedia.soft.net>
Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 16:11 +0530, ysgrifennodd Chinmaya Mishra:
> Hi. . . .
>
> In the Linux kernel is there any apis are available
> which takes an unsigned long as an argument and
> return the date in string format. Just like ctime() in
> user space.
No, and thats an extremely complex process so best kept outside of the
kernel.
In particular the kernel has no idea about
- Summer time shifting
- Leap second rules for different timezones
- Locales
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2006-07-11 10:41 Chinmaya Mishra
2006-07-11 11:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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