Small issues with hwclock of busybox

[Doug Clapp]

Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Sunday 03 July 2011 11:37, Klaus Brinkmann wrote:
>    
>> Hello Denys
>>
>>      
>>> What in current text makes it unclear?
>>>        
>>      
>>>          -u      Hardware clock is in UTC
>>>          -l      Hardware clock is in local time
>>>        
>> As I described in the linked forum-thread
>> (http://userpages.uni-koblenz.de/~bbrink/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=16&p=18#p18):
>>
>> The "is in" in the "--help"-output can be interpreted as "is output in"
>> and not as it's ment to be interpreted "is kept/stored in". Especially
>> because the output of "hwclock -ru" or "hwclock -rl" does not clearly
>> state which timezone the time is shown in. This leads to a different
>> expected result if you compare it to the "date"-output. Please follow
>> the above link for the example.
>>      
> How about this?
>
> -//usage:     "\n       -u      Hardware clock is in UTC"
> -//usage:     "\n       -l      Hardware clock is in local time"
> +//usage:     "\n       -u      Assume hardware clock is kept in UTC"
> +//usage:     "\n       -l      Assume hardware clock is kept in local time"
>
>
>    
>>> hwclock from util-linux-2.19.1 does not show timezone.
>>> Busybox tries to mimic 'standard' tools behavior.
>>>        
>> The hwclock-command that i use on Gentoo and that _does_ show the
>> timezone ("CEST" in my case) comes with the portage-package
>> sys-apps/util-linux-2.19.1 which is from
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/
>>   I am surprised that it doesn't show the timezone for you, but that it
>> does for me (for my Gentoo-PC). I have no idea right now what might be
>> causing this.
>>      
> We need more data then.
>
> Fedora 15: doesn't show timezone
> Gentoo (which version?): shows timezone
> Other distros: ?
> Latest canilla util-linux: ?
>
>    
For what it's worth, hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7 (puppy Linux 
4.2.1) does show time zone

Doug Clapp