From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:32:56 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/9] Allow timezone to be set in configuration In-Reply-To: <20111017220130.30ce6f38@skate> References: <1318603921-22899-1-git-send-email-will_wagner@carallon.com> <201110151151.43592.arnout@mind.be> <20111017220130.30ce6f38@skate> Message-ID: <201110181032.56682.arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net [In a private e-mail, Will indicated to me that he doesn't really have time to work on these patches, so if anyone feels like picking them up...] On Monday 17 October 2011 22:01:30, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > Perhaps even move it out of the SKELETON_DEFAULT condition. > > Agreed. > > However, it would be good to mention in the config option help text > that this only works with uClibc. I don't ask to do it in this patch > (because it's a lot more work), but it would be great to make this > works for glibc as well (where it's not /etc/TZ, but /etc/timezone, > with a different syntax). Actually, /etc/timezone can contain something like MST7MDT too. It's just more descriptive to put America/Denver. And AFAIK, /etc/timezone is not even used by glibc, only the environment variable TZ or /etc/localtime. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 31BB CF53 8660 6F88 345D 54CC A836 5879 20D7 CF43