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

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

2018-08-08 16:23 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Otto <ad...@th...>:
> On Mittwoch, 8. August 2018 12:28:33 CEST David Gálvez wrote:
>> This is with tzinit and a kernel fresh compiled from github sources,
>> running on Aranym with the option "GMTime" set.
>
> Your are right, seems to have to do with the setting of the GMTime option in
> aranym. Does not drift if i set it, and use tzinit -u instead. Hmm. Have to
> think about that again.
>

I can't replicate either the drift issue here if I unset GMTime in
Aranym and if I set the kernel in localtime mode, it must there be
still something different between our systems.
In the mean time I have found the reason why tzinit wasn't setting the
kernel timezone. Macro TM_GTMOFF was not defined in the file
tz/localtime.c use to build tzinit binary:

https://github.com/freemint/mintlib/blob/40caa38b3d4e5cd9dc1819e4d5e4e39de97618e0/tz/localtime.c#L1594

but it's defined for the other source files though:

https://github.com/freemint/mintlib/blob/40caa38b3d4e5cd9dc1819e4d5e4e39de97618e0/tz/Makefile#L45

I'm still thinking how to fix this nicely I'd like to avoid defining
TM_GTMOFF in two different places.

Besides the previous problems there are still some more things to fix:

root@aranym040:~> date
Thu Aug  9 08:25:00 CEST 2018

root@aranym040:~> tzinit
Current date and time: Thu Aug  9 08:25:04 2018
Time zone in use: (null)
East of Greenwich Mean Time: 2:00:00
Kernel clock mode: UTC

"Time zone in use" output in tzinit is still null for me, it should be CEST.