I'm using uClibc version 0.9.30.2 and my target has an ARM core. --Mark
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Mark Guagenti <[email protected]> wrote: >> For some reason the date command on my busybox (1.17.4) will not show >> the correct day of the week. No matter what I set the date to it >> always shows "Sunday" as the day of the week. For example: >> # date -s "2010-12-21 08:24:00" >> Sunday 21 08:24:00 MST 2010 >> # date -s "2010-12-22 08:24:00" >> t Sunday 22 08:24:00 MST 2010 >> # date +%s >> # date +%a >> t >> # date +%A >> >> I also tried setting the time with NTP but that doesn't seem to help. >> Any suggestions on why my system is doing this? > > Not really. I can't reproduce it. I disabled actual date setting code, > and added printouts in validate_tm_time() around mktime(ptm) call: > > # ./busybox date -s "2010-12-21 08:24:00" > date: before:sec:0 min:24 hour:8 mday:21 mon:11 year:110 wday:3 > yday:355 isdst:-1 > date: after:sec:0 min:24 hour:8 mday:21 mon:11 year:110 wday:2 yday:354 > isdst:0 > Tue Dec 21 08:24:00 CET 2010 > # ./busybox date -s "2010-12-22 08:24:00" > date: before:sec:0 min:24 hour:8 mday:22 mon:11 year:110 wday:3 > yday:355 isdst:-1 > date: after:sec:0 min:24 hour:8 mday:22 mon:11 year:110 wday:3 yday:355 > isdst:0 > Wed Dec 22 08:24:00 CET 2010 > # ./busybox date -s "2010-12-23 08:24:00" > date: before:sec:0 min:24 hour:8 mday:23 mon:11 year:110 wday:3 > yday:355 isdst:-1 > date: after:sec:0 min:24 hour:8 mday:23 mon:11 year:110 wday:4 yday:356 > isdst:0 > Thu Dec 23 08:24:00 CET 2010 > > Look how wday changes. > As you see, mktime() sets wday according to other fields, as documented > in its manpage: > > "The mktime() function converts a broken-down time structure, > expressed as local time, > to calendar time representation. The function ignores the specified contents > of the structure members tm_wday and tm_yday and recomputes them from > the other information in the broken-down time structure." > > Looks like you are using buggy libc. Which libc do you use? > -- > vda > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
