[Buildroot] [git commit] package/tzdata: install a default localtime

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 10/01/2014 00:22, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Peter Korsgaard,
> 
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:23:05 +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>> commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=f96e4d7f348ce1b7b53763f102bbedb1ef6a1991
>> branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master
>>
>> Add an option to install a default localtime.
>>
>> since tzdata only makes sense for (e)glibc, we don't care
>> that we install timezone files that uClibc can't understand.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
> 
> I know I should have raised my voice earlier, but I'm not entirely sure
> about this one. Instead of having this as a tzdata specific option, I'd
> very much prefer to have a "System configuration" option that allows to
> set the default time zone, and which works for both glibc and uClibc.
> 
> Alexandre Belloni has posted some patches some time ago around time
> zone handling with uClibc, it would have be great to have a better
> integration here.
> 

Yeah, it is still on my todo list. I'm trying to get the timezone
specification generated automatically but it requires some host packages
and I still didn't take the time to do that correctly.

> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
> 


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