Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] busybox: remove date -k patch

2020-03-26 Thread Rosen Penev
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:04 AM Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: > > Hi, > > > The kernel generally only cares about the timezone in a few places: > > last time I checked, iptables xt_time was affected. Without a properly set > timezone, rules will kick in at unexpected times and --utc / --localtz / > --ker

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] busybox: remove date -k patch

2020-03-26 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
Hi, > The kernel generally only cares about the timezone in a few places: last time I checked, iptables xt_time was affected. Without a properly set timezone, rules will kick in at unexpected times and --utc / --localtz / --kerneltz will not work as expected. Did you runtime test this? ~ Jo s

[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] busybox: remove date -k patch

2020-03-25 Thread Rosen Penev
It breaks compilation on musl 1.2.0 as the syscall name changed. According to one of the kernel developers working on removing the settimeofday syscall, setting the kernel timezone is rather pointless: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13305#issuecomment-520463236 The kernel generally onl