Re: [PATCH] fat/vfat: optionally ignore system timezone offset when reading/writing timestamps

[Paul Collins <paul@briny.ondioline.org>]

OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> writes:

> Hiroyuki Machida <Hiroyuki_Machida@hq.scei.sony.co.jp> writes:
>
>> I'm not famillar with recent fat code, but code itself looks good for
>> just turn on/off time adjusting. On the other hand, I feel we need more 
>> consideration on use cases/requirements. I feel that turning off
>> time adjustment is a just ad-hoc solution to issues like Paul san 
>> brought up.
>
> Thank you. I see. So we need "timezone" option to specify adjusted
> time?  If so, I feel we can add it as "timezone=utc", then it'll can
> be improved later...

I am happy to change the patch as needed.  However, since the kernel
does not have access to a timezone database and therefore cannot
convert timezone names to offsets, perhaps the mount option should be
something like "tzoffset=0", "tzoffset=1200" etc., with "tzoffset=0"
being equivalent to the "posixtime" option implemented by my patch.

-- 
Paul Collins
Wellington, New Zealand

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