[arch-general] glibc update broke time display

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Dec 18 05:02:38 EST 2011


On 18/12/11 19:44, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> On 12/18/2011 09:40 AM, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>> glibc-2.14.1-3 broke time display for me.
>>
>> It displays UTC regardless of /etc/localtime or TZ environment variable.
>>
>> Downgrading fixed it again.
>>
>> # date
>> Sun Dec 18 09:35:36 UTC 2011
>> # ls -l /etc/localtime 
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Dec  1 20:02 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels
>> # TZ=Europe/Brussels date
>> Sun Dec 18 09:35:41 Europe 2011
>> # TZ=CET date
>> Sun Dec 18 09:35:45 CET 2011
>> # TZ=foobar date
>> Sun Dec 18 09:35:49 foobar 2011
>> # pacman -S glibc
>> warning: downgrading package glibc (2.14.1-3 => 2.14.1-2)
>> [...]
>> # date
>> Sun Dec 18 10:36:09 CET 2011
>>
>>
>> 	Geert
>>
>>
> Yeah, Allan broke it. He also knows about it but I don't think he could
> reproduce it.
> 

Have reproduced and fixed.   Will be uploading a new package in the next
hour or so.

Allan




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