UTC timestamp option for FAT filesystems fix

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From: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Date: Friday, July 25, 2008 - 12:05 pm

Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=41003c...
Commit:     41003cde95e7e976d3876dbdcdc83dd0a9059279
Parent:     b271e067c896ad4082b15e96077675d08db40625
Author:     Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Jul 25 01:46:48 2008 -0700
Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CommitDate: Fri Jul 25 10:53:34 2008 -0700

    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>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index 2d5e1e5..bbac4f1 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
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