[Clfs-dev] Timezone Issue and util-linux 2.21.2 date

[William Harrington]

Greetings all,

While getting the book updated I've noticed issues I haven't before  
with previous builds.

when running the date command, from util-linux I get this:

root:/sources# date
Sun Sep  2 01:55:34 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page  
2012

this is even after copying the zoneinfo file to /etc/localtime

I have to do this:

TZ=/etc/localtime date
Sat Sep  1 20:56:11 CDT 2012

Is this something different with util-linux's date command?

We're using the same eglibc version so I suspect util linux. I should  
probably install some debugging tools. I just want to make sure I'm  
not hte only one. I've had this multiple builds and different targets  
now.

Sincerely,

William Harrington