[BusyBox] ntpclient (drifting off-topic?)

[Larry Doolittle]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:31:22PM +0100, Niklas Fondberg wrote:
> Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov> wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:44:29AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> >>   http://doolittle.faludi.com/ntpclient/
> >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.
> >
> Is it possible to use this successfully without locale support and uclibc?
> i.e. using TZ environment variable or /etc/TZ file...

I don't fully understand the question.  Yes, ntpclient works
fine without locale support.  The system time that ntpclient
adjusts is in UTC and has nothing to do with time zones.  I have
not personally tested it with uClibc, but I think it "just works".

     - Larry
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