From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 17:05:02 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v1 0/1] Include timezone information in build In-Reply-To: <1430354303-30200-1-git-send-email-judge.packham@gmail.com> References: <1430354303-30200-1-git-send-email-judge.packham@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20150508210502.GU5267@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: