----- Original Message ----- From: "Denys Vlasenko" <[email protected]> To: "Klaus Brinkmann" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 4:43 AM Subject: Re: Small issues with hwclock of busybox
> On Sunday 03 July 2011 11:37, Klaus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hello Denys > > > > > What in current text makes it unclear? > > > > > -u Hardware clock is in UTC > > > -l Hardware clock is in local time > > > > As I described in the linked forum-thread > > (http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~bbrink/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=16&p=18# p18): > > > > The "is in" in the "--help"-output can be interpreted as "is output in" > > and not as it's ment to be interpreted "is kept/stored in". Especially > > because the output of "hwclock -ru" or "hwclock -rl" does not clearly > > state which timezone the time is shown in. This leads to a different > > expected result if you compare it to the "date"-output. Please follow > > the above link for the example. > > How about this? > > -//usage: "\n -u Hardware clock is in UTC" > -//usage: "\n -l Hardware clock is in local time" > +//usage: "\n -u Assume hardware clock is kept in UTC" > +//usage: "\n -l Assume hardware clock is kept in local time" > > > > > hwclock from util-linux-2.19.1 does not show timezone. > > > Busybox tries to mimic 'standard' tools behavior. > > > > The hwclock-command that i use on Gentoo and that _does_ show the > > timezone ("CEST" in my case) comes with the portage-package > > sys-apps/util-linux-2.19.1 which is from > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ > > I am surprised that it doesn't show the timezone for you, but that it > > does for me (for my Gentoo-PC). I have no idea right now what might be > > causing this. > > We need more data then. > > Fedora 15: doesn't show timezone > Gentoo (which version?): shows timezone > Other distros: ? > Latest canilla util-linux: ? > > -- > vda Ubuntu 10.04 foo@amd64:/$ hwclock -v hwclock de util-linux-ng 2.17.2 foo@amd64:/$ sudo hwclock lun. 04 juil. 2011 06:35:42 CEST -0.875156 secondes foo@amd64:/$ sudo hwclock -u lun. 04 juil. 2011 08:35:48 CEST -0.859306 secondes Vanilia util-linux-2.19 [chroot-i486] root:/$ hwclock -v hwclock from util-linux 2.19 [chroot-i486] root:/$ hwclock Mon Jul 4 06:40:29 2011 -0.000250 seconds [chroot-i486] root:/$ hwclock -u Mon Jul 4 08:40:33 2011 -0.000076 seconds I didn't find a way to display the timezone name with util-linux-2.19, maybe I didn't try enought? Gilles _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
