Re: RTC hardware clock option

Walter Hofmann (snwahofm@mi.uni-erlangen.de)
Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:31:30 +0100 (MET)


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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