Re: tai64nlocal not showing localtime

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:56:02 -0400, Paul Jarc <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Peacock <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I suspect that the libtai tools assume that the clock it set to
> > local time and you have the machine set to UTC.
> 
> Other way around: libtai assumes the system clock is UTC/TAI, and
> setting it to local time could produce odd effects.
> 
Well... it seems to be a dietlibc related problem, particular to my
timezone... weird... I recompiled using glibc and the problem
vanished. Gerrit Pape is studying the problem...

Check this out.. America/Asuncion works fine, while
America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires (or America/Buenos_Aires for that
matter) doesn't.

BEFORE RECOMPILING:

[baby@fg:dns 5]$ readlink /etc/localtime
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC
[baby@fg:dns 5]$ tai64nlocal <current
2004-10-29 19:03:03.510289500 A
2004-10-29 19:03:03.510294500 B
2004-10-29 19:03:03.510297500 C
[baby@fg:dns 5]$ readlink /etc/localtime
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
[baby@fg:dns 5]$ tai64nlocal <current
2004-10-29 19:03:03.510289500 A
2004-10-29 19:03:03.510294500 B
2004-10-29 19:03:03.510297500 C
[baby@fg:dns 5]$ readlink /etc/localtime
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Asuncion
[baby@fg:dns 5]$ tai64nlocal <current
2004-10-29 16:03:03.510289500 A
2004-10-29 16:03:03.510294500 B
2004-10-29 16:03:03.510297500 C

AFTER RECOMPLING:

[baby@fg:dns 5]$ readlink /etc/localtime
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC
[baby@fg:dns 5]$ tai64nlocal <current
2004-10-29 19:03:03.510289500 A
2004-10-29 19:03:03.510294500 B
2004-10-29 19:03:03.510297500 C
[baby@fg:dns 5]$ readlink /etc/localtime
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
[baby@fg:dns 5]$ tai64nlocal <current
2004-10-29 16:03:03.510289500 A
2004-10-29 16:03:03.510294500 B
2004-10-29 16:03:03.510297500 C



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