[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH V2 procd] system: fix localtime value in ubus info method output

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 06:40:56 PDT 2016


Function mktime respects current time zone and calling it results in
converting time back to the UTC. It means we were never returning a
time for local zone but GMT one.

The easiest solution is to use tm_gmtoff from struct tm. Unfortunately
this isn't part of POSIX but it seems to be the best idea anyway.

Alternative (worse?) solutions:
1) Use timegm that is nonstandard GNU extension
2) Work with TZ env (getenv & (un)setenv) that is not thread-safe
3) Use timegm (next to localtime) and implement function comparing two
   struct tm. This is what glibc does internally (tm_diff) when compiled
   without HAVE_TM_GMTOFF.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>
---
V2: Rebased on top of the latest master
---
 system.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/system.c b/system.c
index 504cdc0..569a75d 100644
--- a/system.c
+++ b/system.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int system_info(struct ubus_context *ctx, struct ubus_object *obj,
 
 	blob_buf_init(&b, 0);
 
-	blobmsg_add_u32(&b, "localtime", mktime(tm));
+	blobmsg_add_u32(&b, "localtime", now + tm->tm_gmtoff);
 
 #ifdef linux
 	blobmsg_add_u32(&b, "uptime",    info.uptime);
-- 
1.8.4.5




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