From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mail-pd0-f169.google.com ([209.85.192.169]:36726 "EHLO mail-pd0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750891AbbDXE0C (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:26:02 -0400 Received: by pdea3 with SMTP id a3so37555412pde.3 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:26:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:26:04 -0700 From: Isaac Dunham To: J William Piggott Cc: Karel Zak , util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] hwclock: Remove TZUTC Message-ID: <20150424042603.GB1841@newbook> References: <1429764592-15947-1-git-send-email-ibid.ag@gmail.com> <55398435.4090504@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <55398435.4090504@gmx.com> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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