Hi Heinrich, On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 at 09:00, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On 8/1/22 15:58, Simon Glass wrote: > > At present the sandbox timer uses localtime() which can jump around twice > > a year when daylight-saving time changes. > > > > It would be tricky to make use of gmtime() since we still need to present > > the time in local time, as seems to be required by U-Boot's RTC interface. > > > > The problem can only happen once, so use a loop to detect it and try > > again. This should be sufficient to detect either a change in the 'second' > > value, or a daylight-saving change. We can assume that the latter also > > incorporates a 'second' change, so there is no need to loop more than > > twice. > > > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> > > Linux systems tend to use UTC on the RTC. There is no reason for > sandbox_defconfig to deviate. Please, avoid all this complication by > reading the time with gmtime() instead of localtime().
That is an API change...how will we show the local time in that case? I suppose we need to add this concept to rtc.h ? Regards, Simon
