glibc build - timestamps on syslog are in UTC/GMT

[Florian Weimer]

On 07/30/2015 06:58 PM, S1, SRIKANTH (SRIKANTH) wrote:

> We recently built glibc 2.15 for armv7, and we notice a behavior in timestamps on syslog, by default if we do not set TZ variable all timestamps and log look fine, but when a setenv("TZ",zone,1) is done. The logs of binary which calls this code is in GMT/UTC. So is there any specifics that we need to look at?

What TZ string do you use?  If it refers to a TZ file, would you please
file a bug and attach it?

Are you able to reproduce this on run-of-the-mill ARM platforms such as
Fedora or Debian, so that I could debug it there?

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security