[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#735595: Re: [vbox-dev] Bug#735595: Patch to update RTC after time change

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Gianfranco,

we will not apply this patch. I provided the rationale in

  https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11980#comment:4

We will probably fix VBoxService to use adjtimex() instead of adjtime()
which should be enough for most users. We also might synchronize the
RTC with the system time on 'steps' (ie host/guest time are out of sync
for more than 20 seconds) but the latter still needs to be discussed
internally.

Kind regards,

Frank

On Friday 11 March 2016 10:23:24 Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi Sam and VBox developers,
> I'm forwarding the following mail to VirtualBox Developers's list
> 
> can you please release it under MIT license, to allow them review and
> possibly apply it?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Gianfranco
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Il Giovedì 10 Marzo 2016 19:18, Sam Morris <sam at robots.org.uk> ha scritto:
> Here's a patch to VBoxService that makes it write to the RTC after it
> updates the system clock.

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