Re: [Freemint-discuss] Fwd: Re: Timezone and timestamp

[David G. <dga...@gm...>]

2018-08-08 11:34 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Otto <ad...@th...>:
> On Mittwoch, 8. August 2018 08:59:59 CEST David Gálvez wrote:
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>> tzinit built after that commit fails to set the kernel timezone
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>> correctly,
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> I cannot confirm that. My tzinit was built definitely after that commit, and
> it seems to set the timezone offset correctly. Only problem seems that it
> "drifts" when you repeatedly call it after booting:
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> $ date
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> Wed Aug  8 10:59:29 CEST 2018
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> $ /sbin/tzinit -l
> Current date and time: Wed Aug  8 06:59:38 2018
> Time zone in use: CEST
> East of Greenwich Mean Time: 2:00:00
> Kernel clock mode: localtime
> $ /sbin/tzinit -l
> Current date and time: Wed Aug  8 02:59:40 2018
> Time zone in use: CEST
> East of Greenwich Mean Time: 2:00:00
> Kernel clock mode: localtime
> $ /sbin/tzinit -l
> Current date and time: Tue Aug  7 22:59:41 2018
> Time zone in use: CEST
> East of Greenwich Mean Time: 2:00:00
> Kernel clock mode: localtime
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>
>
> etc.

I can't replicate your issues either, here the clock doesn't drift,
I've tested with "tzinit -l" and "tzinit -u".
This is with tzinit and a kernel fresh compiled from github sources,
running on Aranym with the option "GMTime" set.