From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexandre Belloni Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:44:32 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit] package/tzdata: install a default localtime In-Reply-To: <20140110072223.5bb42cc1@skate> References: <20140109205952.2AAEA9C413@busybox.osuosl.org> <20140110072223.5bb42cc1@skate> Message-ID: <52CF4270.4000707@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 10/01/2014 00:22, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Peter Korsgaard, > > On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:23:05 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >> commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=f96e4d7f348ce1b7b53763f102bbedb1ef6a1991 >> branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master >> >> Add an option to install a default localtime. >> >> since tzdata only makes sense for (e)glibc, we don't care >> that we install timezone files that uClibc can't understand. >> >> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" >> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard > > I know I should have raised my voice earlier, but I'm not entirely sure > about this one. Instead of having this as a tzdata specific option, I'd > very much prefer to have a "System configuration" option that allows to > set the default time zone, and which works for both glibc and uClibc. > > Alexandre Belloni has posted some patches some time ago around time > zone handling with uClibc, it would have be great to have a better > integration here. > Yeah, it is still on my todo list. I'm trying to get the timezone specification generated automatically but it requires some host packages and I still didn't take the time to do that correctly. > Thanks, > > Thomas > -- Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com