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Re: [PING^2] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, P J P <pj dot pandit at yahoo dot co dot in>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 02:24:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PING^2] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
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On 05/01/2014 11:03 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> Assumptions:
>>
>> - Server and chroot have updated and matching zone info files.
>>
>> - You don't control the server e.g. OpenShift Gears or Docker.
>
> Another assumption: tz files don't change while applications are
> running, as the apps typically won't notice the change.
I have forked a new thread to discuss this and it is IMO outside
the scope of this discussion.
>> (1) Have the administrator of the server set the TZ env var to match
>> /etc/localtime.
>> Is you opinion that (1) is the correct solution?
>
> (1) should work under the assumptions you gave, so in that sense it's
> correct; but it's not the only working solution and I would suggest
> something different.
What would you suggest to solve the goal?
Restated here for clarity:
- Set the local time in the chroot to match the server local time.
Would you set both to UTC?
Cheers,
Carlos.