[BusyBox] Re: busybox Digest, Vol 24, Issue 4

[Niklas Fondberg]

busybox-request at mail.busybox.net wrote:

>From: Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov>
>
>On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:44:29AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
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>> > Anybody know if there is a small (uclibc) ntp client or a busybox one?
>>i only have limited experience with it, but i think this
>>might be what you want:
>>    http://doolittle.faludi.com/ntpclient/
>>    
>>
>
>The author of this program (that's me) lurks on this list,
>which you might consider an advantage.  I don't test on
>uClibc, but in theory it will work fine.
>
>For leaf node use, ntpclient works great.  My only concern left
>with that code is the (nonexistent) treatment of leap seconds.
>That is a can of worms.
>
>I considered busyboxing ntpclient, but there wasn't a lot of
>code to share.  If you come up with advantages to building
>such a combo, the busybox community and I can certainly help.
>
>     - Larry
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>
Is it possible to use this successfully without locale support and uclibc?
i.e. using TZ environment variable or /etc/TZ file...

Niklas