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Solved: Re: Follow Up: Re: date broken in coreutils-6.7 and new glibc-2.
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Clemens Koller |
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Solved: Re: Follow Up: Re: date broken in coreutils-6.7 and new glibc-2.7 |
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Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:27:53 +0100 |
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Philip Rowlands schrieb:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Clemens Koller wrote:
>
>> As already mentioned, my problem is that I cannot set the date
>> reliably, working on glibc-2.7 and coreutils-6.9 (including the
>> futimens patch). I did some more tests (the commands have been entered
>> one by one... only some second(s) in between):
>>
>> Right after power-up, login:
>> [stuff deleted]
>> address@hidden:~$ date -u 111214492007.00
>> Mon Nov 12 14:49:00 UTC 2007
>> address@hidden:~$ date
>> Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 CET 1970
>> address@hidden:~$ date
>> Mon Nov 12 15:49:03 CET 2007 <<< working from here!!
>
> Well, that's odd.
>
>>
>> It seems more kernel / glibc related to me, now. And I will have to
>> first understand the expected behaviour of the kernel. (But note: the
>> kernel didn't change in between my toolchain upgrade, so it was
>> working before with the old glibc-2.3.5, same coreutils... ????)
>
> It certainly sounds like a problem with the kernel/RTC interaction. I
> don't know the history of glibc changes with regard to time functions.
Okay, I moved to a newer kernel (and from ARCH=ppc to ARCH=powerpc)
and the problem disappeared! :-)
Thank you, Phil and sorry for the noise here.
Regards,
Clemens Koller
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