From: Roland Hieber <r.hieber@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/6] timezone: Cleanup timezone file removal
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:05:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180626140524.7aoghtamzatj4tdm@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1957279.bxehSp9SNW@ada>
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 04:01:03PM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> Hei hei,
>
> Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2018, 15:50:53 CEST schrieb Roland Hieber:
> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 08:56:48AM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > > config TIMEZONE_LOCALTIME
> > >
> > > - prompt "Timezone for /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone"
> > > + prompt "Timezone for /etc/localtime"
> > >
> > > default "Europe/Berlin"
> >
> > By the way, is this still a reasonable default for most users, or should
> > we set it to UTC instead?
>
> I actually set this to UTC here this week. o.O
>
> This should be put to an additional patch then.
>
> > (I'm thinking about localized defaults that leak into production systems
> > unnoticed, like once upon a time when most MySQL tables on production
> > servers were created with Swedish collation order by default... :-))
>
> You never know where the device ends up, and I think UTC is the only
> reasonable default. Should we make installation of the UTC zoneinfo file
> mandatory then?
I guess so. Right now, not even Europe is installed by default, even if
it is chosen as the default... :)
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-26 6:56 [ptxdist] [PATCH 0/6] timezone cleanup and tz update Alexander Dahl
2018-06-26 6:56 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 1/6] timezone: Remove menu entry 'Mideast' Alexander Dahl
2018-06-26 6:56 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/6] timezone: Cleanup timezone file removal Alexander Dahl
2018-06-26 13:50 ` Roland Hieber
2018-06-26 14:01 ` Alexander Dahl
2018-06-26 14:04 ` Alexander Dahl
2018-06-26 14:05 ` Roland Hieber [this message]
2018-06-26 6:56 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 3/6] timezone: Order entries Alexander Dahl
2018-06-26 6:56 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 4/6] timezone: Add missing zoneinfo entries Alexander Dahl
2018-06-26 6:56 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 5/6] tz: version bump 2017c -> 2018e Alexander Dahl
2018-06-26 14:02 ` Roland Hieber
2018-06-26 6:56 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH 6/6] Revert "host-tz-database: use snprintf provided by the host compiler" Alexander Dahl
2018-06-26 14:03 ` Roland Hieber
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