Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] base-files: sysfixtime: Allow system time in local timezones

2016-10-21 Thread Petr Štetiar
Daniel Dickinson [2016-10-20 16:47:09]: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:05:43 +0200 > Petr Štetiar wrote: > > > Felix Fietkau [2016-10-19 21:44:06]: > > > > > I'd like to know why you need to use local time for the RTC, I think > > > that's

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] base-files: sysfixtime: Allow system time in local timezones

2016-10-21 Thread Petr Štetiar
Daniel Dickinson [2016-10-20 16:49:48]: Hi, > I don't see wanting an embedded system to be like a desktop to be a > reasonable justification. we're talking here about quadcore i.MX6, 2GB RAM and Vivante GPU. It's usable as embedded desktop I would say. > It doesn't

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] base-files: sysfixtime: Allow system time in local timezones

2016-10-20 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:05:43 +0200 Petr Štetiar wrote: > Felix Fietkau [2016-10-19 21:44:06]: > > > I'd like to know why you need to use local time for the RTC, I think > > that's rather uncommon. > > You mean system time in local time, right? RTC should be in

[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] base-files: sysfixtime: Allow system time in local timezones

2016-10-18 Thread Petr Štetiar
Currently we're forced to have system time in the UTC timezone as hardware clock, mainly because kernel expects in rtc_hctosys(), that RTC time is held in UTC timezone. With this patch one can now have local system time for example in CEST timezone and RTC time still in UTC with boolean config