[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd 216

[Andrei Borzenkov]

В Wed, 20 Aug 2014 02:59:52 +0200
Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> пишет:

> Heya!
> 
> This is a major new release. Among many other changes systemd-resolved
> is now a pretty complete caching DNS and LLMNR stub resolver.
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/systemd-216.tar.xz
> 
> CHANGES WITH 216:
> 
>         * timedated no longer reads NTP implementation unit names from
>           /usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/*.list. Alternative NTP
>           implementations should add a
> 
>             Conflicts=systemd-timesyncd.service
> 
>           to their unit files to take over and replace systemd's NTP
>           default functionality.
> 

Does it mean any alternative service should also declare
Alias=systemd-timesyncd.service? This is what timedated checks to
answer whether NTP is enabled.

> 
>         * systemd will no longer inform the kernel about the current
>           timezone, as this is necessarily incorrect and racy as the
>           kernel has no understanding of DST and similar
>           concepts. This hence means FAT timestamps will be always
>           considered UTC, similar to what Android is already
>           doing. Also, when the RTC is configured to the local time
>           (rather than UTC) systemd will never synchronize back to it,
>           as this might confuse Windows at a later boot.
> 

I do not know how often Android users need to exchange data with
Windows via USB stick, but I have to do it pretty often and it sounds
like now my timestamps will be wrong. Could you please name commit that
does it? The only one I can find close to it
(c264aeab4b0e7b69f469e12e78d4a48b3ed7a66e) says actually

"core: only set the kernel's timezone when the RTC runs in local time"

which is quite different.