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From: "alice" <alice@ayaya.dev>
To: <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Cc: "yubing (C)" <yubing12@huawei.com>,
	"liudongxu" <liudongxu3@huawei.com>,
	"wangyunhe (A)" <wangyunhe@huawei.com>,
	"qiuguorui" <qiuguorui1@huawei.com>,
	"Wanglieming (VRP SSP)" <wanglieming@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [musl] Time zone has not updated after call tzset()
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 15:10:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CQFSLI2OLWBI.3K2TRYXR8IECT@sumire> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f875523c2c094e2db64cbcd13aace527@huawei.com>

On Sat Feb 11, 2023 at 7:53 AM CET, zhoujingqiang (A) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Normally, /etc/localtime is a soft link to a file that stores time zone
> information.
>
> Without setting the TZ environment variable, I change the time zone by
> changing the file linked to /etc/localtime. After calling tzset(), I find that
> the time zone does not change. The test code is as follows:

musl does not support changing the timezone while running.
see https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2017/06/09/9 ,
for a response to an identical bug report

tl;dr without semantics: you have to restart a running process to get a new
timezone.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-11 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-11  6:53 zhoujingqiang (A)
2023-02-11 14:10 ` alice [this message]
2023-02-11 14:20   ` Rich Felker
2023-02-11 14:30     ` alice
2023-02-11 14:42       ` Rich Felker

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