[BusyBox] busybox date

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Thu Nov 29 22:11:03 UTC 2001


On Thu Nov 29, 2001 at 10:52:52PM -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
> I've been working on a problem with the date/time.  Given the
> appropriate /etc/localtime file and /usr/share/zoneinfo tree, GNU
> /bin/date works - but busybox date does not (both 0.60.1 and 0.60.0). 
> I don't know why.  I updated /etc/timezone to create /etc/localtime
> and /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime - and to set both TZ and TZDIR. 
> None of this matters to busybox date apparently - instead of a
> timezone it prints ???.
> 
> In a full distribution, both busybox date and GNU date work.  In my
> floppy distro, GNU date works, and busybox date does not.
> 
> I'll take a look at the busybox source after a while....

Do you happen to be using busybox with uClibc?

 -Erik

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