[BusyBox] Pb with TZ and time ?

Jacques Nilo jnilo at users.sf.net
Wed Feb 23 22:11:07 UTC 2005


I want to define DST for Paris, France.
On my Bering-uClibc distro (using Bbox 1.0 and uClibc 0.97) I set:
firewall# export TZ=MET-1METDST-2,M3.5.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/03:00:00
firewall# date -s 032701002005
Sun Mar 27 01:00:00 MET 2005          OK
firewall# date -s 032702002005
Sun Mar 27 03:00:00 METDST 2005   OK
firewall# date -s 103002002005
Sun Oct 30 02:00:00 MET 2005            WRONG (1)
firewall# date -s 103003002005
Sun Oct 30 03:00:00 MET 2005            OK
firewall#

(1) The return of:
firewall# date -s 103002002005
should be
Sun Oct 30 02:00:00 METDST 2005
(dst designation is wrong even though time is OK at 02:00)

A bug somewhere ?

Jacques



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