Formatting timestamps in the kernel

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:18:51 -0700, Neil Baylis said:

> I think I read somewhere that timezones are considered a userspace concept,
> and as such are not supported within the kernel.

Correct.

Your best bet is probably to use "seconds and fractions since boot", since
you can steal all the code you need from printk().  Next best is to use
epoch seconds and fractions.
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