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

2016-10-27 Thread John Crispin
On 21/10/2016 10:31, Petr Štetiar wrote: > 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 rather uncomm

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 rather uncommon. > > > > You mean system time in local t

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 serve any useful purpose th

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 UTC and > in current sysftime i

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 UTC and > in current sysftime i

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

2016-10-19 Thread Petr Štetiar
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 UTC and in current sysftime isn't. Basically sysfixtime should be using hwclock with -u parameter from

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

2016-10-19 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2016-10-19 21:38, Petr Štetiar wrote: > Felix Fietkau [2016-10-18 23:25:40]: > >> On 2016-10-18 23:11, Petr Štetiar wrote: >> > 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 U

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

2016-10-19 Thread Petr Štetiar
Felix Fietkau [2016-10-18 23:25:40]: > On 2016-10-18 23:11, Petr Štetiar wrote: > > 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

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

2016-10-18 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2016-10-18 23:11, Petr Štetiar wrote: > 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 > timez