RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone

Rich Felker dalias@aerifal.cx
Thu Apr 3 19:40:00 GMT 2014


On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 01:30:36AM +0800, P J P wrote:
> > On Thursday, 3 April 2014 8:15 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> > Yes, absolutely.  Saying "I want to print the contents of /etc/localtime"
> > is not a compelling argument.
> 
>   Heh...who said that?
> 
> > Why do you want to print its contents?
> 
>   Did you see the bug that is listed in the subject line? If not, please see:
> -> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077902.

Classic XY problem. Generating a POSIX TZ string does not solve your
chroot problem, and there's a much simpler approach that does solve
it. I replied on the bug tracker.

Rich



More information about the Libc-alpha mailing list