[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] Include timezone information in build

From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] Include timezone information in build
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 17:05:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150508210502.GU5267@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1430354303-30200-1-git-send-email-judge.packham@gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 12:38:22PM +1200, Chris Packham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Recently an eagle-eyed tester pointed out to me that the build time
> reported in my u-boot build did not match the file timestamp on the
> server it was stored on. This is because at $dayjob we have a build farm
> with times set to UTC while the storage server was displaying the local
> time. In reality the times were the same but the timezones were not and
> there is no indication in the u-boot version about how to interpret the
> time.
> 
> This is my attempt to address the issue by defining U_BOOT_TZ along side
> U_BOOT_TIME and U_BOOT_DATE. I've kept the TZ portion separate because I
> thought there might some push pack on changing the version string. For
> my purposes I can display the TZ separately as long as it is defined by
> the build process. I've also elected to use %Z instead of %z as I feel
> that the timezone name is more friendly but that's just a personal
> preference so I wouldn't object to switching to the numeric
> representation if others feel strongly.

Concept is fine, I'd actually prefer %z so that the size increase is
constant at least.  Please do that in a non-RFC v2 and I'll pick it up,
thanks!

-- 
Tom
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