[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#444276: Bug#444276: initscripts: mount /lib/init/rw /proc and /sys with bad hours

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The system clock is set from the hardware clock by the kernel without
> timezone information, and later in the boot by the hwclock*.sh scripts

You know, given that the only reason to have hwclock around nowadays is to
apply timezone information to the RTC, I could be persuaded to try to write
a kernel patch to let that information be configured in the kernel command
line.

> What exactly is the problem with having slightly incorrect timestamps
> in these mount points?

Good question...

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