[systemd-devel] [PATCH] timedated: Add a LocalOffset property for timezone offset

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> Exactly because they do not require being upgraded in lock-step, doing
> conversion to the local time locally is "racy". Assuming we have up-to-date
> timezone database locally, with the patch that was merged today we can
> answer the question "what the local time should be remotely", but not
> necessarily "what the local time is remotely".
>
> If we go to the trouble of displaying the remote local time, imho we
> should do it as the remote does.

No, we should care about the *state* of the system, and that is its
time value and its configured location on earth.

Systemd has no business in "fixing" the *presentation* logic of these
values. It is not an API for the timezone database. These tools
already exist.

Please stop trying to add insufficient and half-thought-through APIs
to cover problems which just do not exist in reality or do not need to
be worked-around by systemd.

Thanks,
Kay