> My understanding of TIMEZONE and DST in kernel configs was telling 
> the kernel about the hardware clock.  I recently told someone to use
> TIMEZONE and DST so their dual boot i386 could have the hardware clock set
> for the other operating system in local time and not GMT like the 
> default NetBSD kernel wants.  I don't think they are obsolete.

This sounds to me as a slightly different usage being re-assigned to
these options: normalize hardware clock to GMT, as opposed to: initialize
a user interface to get at timezone info.

Oh well.

-pk