Re: [hackers] [sbase][Patch] date: add date/time setting capability

From: John Vogel <jvogel4_AT_stny.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 16:20:28 -0500

On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:20:41 +0100
Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:

> I am unsure how to deal with this patch. I personally have an
> NTD-daemon running and it does all my time-manipulations. I can imagine
> that maybe manually setting your time is a good thing for debugging,
> testing, joking, whatever, but is it really worth the added complexity?
>
> What do the others think?

I need to set date during boot on my raspberrypis. Since posix specifies
setting the date with date, I thought it would be helpful to add it to
sbase. I can always supply my own date setting utility (which I do now)
if the patch is deemed to bloat the code unduly.
Received on Tue Dec 27 2016 - 22:20:28 CET