"Eduardo E. Horvath" writes:
> > I've thought about it, but its hard, partially because there aren't
> > hooks in the time handling to deal with it. The offset is first used
> > before even init(8) has started, and the *todr functions would get
> > confused if things just jumped after boot time. I've been
> > contemplating changing the design of this whole thing a bit to
> > simplify the problem.
> 
> Actually it's a bit worse than that.  I looked into the problem a while
> back and it seems that when the kernel mounts the root filesystem, if the
> filesystem's time is greater than the current time, the kernel will assume
> that the RTC is wrong and use the date from the rootfs.  If you want to
> fixup TIMEZONE and DST, you have to do it *before* mounting root if you're
> int the western hemisphere, or you will be setting it to some random value
> between *now* and *TIMEZONE*.

As I said, there are issues.

Perry