[Buildroot] setting timezone from web page

[Buildroot] setting timezone from web page

[John Stile]

I am using buildroot for a device where the user can set the timezone
via a web page, and the web page gets it's list of timezones from:
http://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/zone.tab
But those don't work in /etc/TZ.

I found some documentation that says buildroot's /etc/TZ should follow
rules according to Single Unix Specification Version 3

Is there a way to translates/transcribes IETF timezone into a Single
Unix Specification Version 3?

If not is there a compatible zone.tab for buildroot's  /etc/TZ?

Is there a better way to do all this?

I'm on buildroot-2011.11.

[Buildroot] setting timezone from web page

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear John Stile,

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:51:29 -0800, John Stile wrote:

> If not is there a compatible zone.tab for buildroot's  /etc/TZ?
> 
> Is there a better way to do all this?

Last time I did a project that involved time zones and configurability
of time zones through a web interface, I used glibc to get the more
standard handling of time zones. You can perfectly fine use a glibc
toolchain with Buildroot.

Of /etc/TZ is *not* a Buildroot thing. It is a uClibc thing.

Best regards,

Thomas
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