Bug 5414 - [hwclock] reads "timezone" without calling tzset()
Summary: [hwclock] reads "timezone" without calling tzset()
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Busybox
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: 1.19.x
Hardware: All Linux
: P5 normal
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Reported: 2012-07-30 18:30 UTC by David Barksdale
Modified: 2014-02-25 16:53 UTC (History)
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2012-07-30 18:30 UTC, David Barksdale 		Details
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Description David Barksdale 2012-07-30 18:30:48 UTC 
Created attachment 4460 [details]
proposed fix

When using hwclock to set the system time, it always sets the kernel's tz_minuteswest to 0. It calculates tz_minuteswest from the libc globals "timezone" and "daylight" which are 0 before being set by a call to tzset().
Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2014-02-25 16:53:01 UTC 
Fixed in git:

commit 589051b56553788546c757a0b38996a1a8c49a11
Author: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 25 17:52:10 2014 +0100

    hwclock: fix setting of tz_minuteswest