Re: glibc update broke time display

[Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.