Re: [systemd-devel] Specifying calendar events in an arbitrary timezone

2016-12-15 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
Ah, systemd in fact had tzdata parsing code already – it was used by tinedatectl to show DST info. Try to recover it from Git. On Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 21:03 Ran Benita wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > So yeah, we'd love to support this, but are waiti

Re: [systemd-devel] Specifying calendar events in an arbitrary timezone

2016-12-15 Thread Ran Benita
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > So yeah, we'd love to support this, but are waiting for a suitable API. I see, makes sense. Since new glibc API will probably be slow to come, if ever, it might make sense to circumvent it and go for the tzdata directly? It see

Re: [systemd-devel] news on Issue # 4078 ?

2016-12-15 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:37:19PM +, arnaud gaboury wrote: > I am still with a broken UID/GID container for some specific directories. > This is described in issue #4078 [0]. > > It start to be annoying as I can't upgrade some packages on the Fedora > container. At least, I think failed upgra

Re: [systemd-devel] Specifying calendar events in an arbitrary timezone

2016-12-15 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 15.12.16 17:52, Ran Benita (ran...@gmail.com) wrote: > My question: is this not supported on purpose (because timezones suck), > or because it's just not implemented/hard to implement? Current systemd actually supports calendar events with timezone specifications. However, the specified t

[systemd-devel] news on Issue # 4078 ?

2016-12-15 Thread arnaud gaboury
I am still with a broken UID/GID container for some specific directories. This is described in issue #4078 [0]. It start to be annoying as I can't upgrade some packages on the Fedora container. At least, I think failed upgrades are related to this issue. Let's take one example: # dnf upgrade iput

[systemd-devel] Specifying calendar events in an arbitrary timezone

2016-12-15 Thread Ran Benita
I would like to schedule some timers to execute daily at a given time in some given timezone. My use-case for this is: - The server's local timezone is UTC - this is just good practice for various reasons, so I don't want to change that. - For business reasons, the service I want to run needs t