From: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:46:48 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems fix
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~402
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=41003cde95e7e976d3876dbdcdc83dd0a9059279;p=linux-2.6

UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems fix

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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index 2d5e1e582e..bbac4f1d90 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -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