UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems fix
authorJoe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:46:48 +0000 (01:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:53:34 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt

index 2d5e1e582e13272bfaef2fbc494a156d829cc289..bbac4f1d90567c3f7ea0f46a869c091160390076 100644 (file)
@@ -96,6 +96,14 @@ shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
                        emulate the Windows 95 rule for create.
                 Default setting is `lower'.
 
+tz=UTC        -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time.
+                 This option disables the conversion of timestamps
+                 between local time (as used by Windows on FAT) and UTC
+                 (which Linux uses internally).  This is particuluarly
+                 useful when mounting devices (like digital cameras)
+                 that are set to UTC in order to avoid the pitfalls of
+                 local time.
+
 <bool>: 0,1,yes,no,true,false
 
 TODO