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From: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
To: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] hwclock: Remove TZUTC
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:26:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150424042603.GB1841@newbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55398435.4090504@gmx.com>

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 07:45:57PM -0400, J William Piggott wrote:
> 
> The patch that introduced TZUTC should have been rejected.
> Mr. Parmelee misunderstood how to use and configure the
> zoneinfo 'right' database. This was likely due to the 'right'
> database being undocumented. I added information about the
> database to the hwclock(8) man-page, and intended to remove
> the TZUTC environment variable from hwclock when refactoring.
> Since this regression needs to be addressed, it might as well
> be removed now.

> TZUTC is undocumented and should be safe to remove.
> 

Thanks.
This seems like the better fix.

Thank you,
Isaac Dunham

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-24  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-23  4:49 [PATCH] hwclock: avoid UB if TZUTC is unset; include sys/time.h for timeval Isaac Dunham
2015-04-23 23:45 ` [PATCH 0/1] hwclock: Remove TZUTC J William Piggott
2015-04-23 23:53   ` [PATCH 1/1] " J William Piggott
2015-04-27  8:07     ` Karel Zak
2015-04-24  4:26   ` Isaac Dunham [this message]

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