From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:08:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcbgw2dj.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4863BD48.9000205@skyrush.com> (Joe Peterson's message of "Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:01:12 -0600")
Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com> writes:
> I just looked at the FAT32 specification from Microsoft, and nowhere
> does it say that FAT timestamps are in local time. It does not mention
> local time, time standards, or time zones at all. Here it is:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/fatgen.mspx
>
> So there is nothing inherent in FAT's design or specification that
> requires dates and times to be in local time. It appears it is up to
> the OS or device to convey a meaning by how the timestamps are used.
> For this reason, I do not consider it a hack or a design
> change/violation to optionally use UTC for the timestamps on a given FAT
> volume.
This is not interesting argument. That mentions MSDOS/Windows
everywhere, you just ignored it.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-26 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-25 5:24 Joe Peterson
2008-06-25 22:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-25 23:56 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 2:44 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 7:32 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-26 13:23 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 14:37 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-26 15:45 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 16:26 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-26 17:06 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-28 22:24 ` James Cloos
2008-06-29 5:03 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-29 8:20 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2008-06-26 17:21 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 18:15 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2008-06-27 5:12 ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-01 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02 4:43 ` Joe Peterson
2008-07-01 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02 14:47 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 16:01 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 17:08 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2008-06-25 13:31 barry bouwsma
2008-06-25 14:42 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-25 19:35 ` barry bouwsma
2008-06-26 4:24 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-26 19:07 ` barry bouwsma
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