[OE-core] [PATCH v2 2/6] initscripts: save /etc/timestamp with seconds accuracy

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 16:56 -0500, Ben Shelton wrote:
> From: Blair Elliott <blair.elliott at ni.com>
> 
> Currently, /etc/timestamp is saved with minutes accuracy.  To increase
> the accuracy, modify the save-rtc.sh and bootmisc.sh scripts to save and
> read /etc/timestamp respectively with seconds accuracy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Tollerton <rich.tollerton at ni.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Shelton <ben.shelton at ni.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/image.bbclass                                | 2 +-
>  meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh | 5 +++--
>  meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/save-rtc.sh | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/image.bbclass b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
> index a03b880..772c3ed 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/image.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/image.bbclass
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ set_image_autologin () {
>  # Can be use to create /etc/timestamp during image construction to give a reasonably 
>  # sane default time setting
>  rootfs_update_timestamp () {
> -	date -u +%4Y%2m%2d%2H%2M >${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/timestamp
> +	date -u +%4Y%2m%2d%2H%2M%2S >${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/timestamp
>  }
>  
>  # Prevent X from being started
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh
> index 5211824..ccc7f9f 100755
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh
> @@ -66,10 +66,11 @@ fi
>  test -x /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh && /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh start
>  if test -e /etc/timestamp
>  then
> -	SYSTEMDATE=`date -u +%4Y%2m%2d%2H%2M`
> +	SYSTEMDATE=`date -u +%4Y%2m%2d%2H%2M%2S`
>  	read TIMESTAMP < /etc/timestamp
>  	if [ ${TIMESTAMP} -gt $SYSTEMDATE ]; then
> -		date -u ${TIMESTAMP#????}${TIMESTAMP%????????}
> +		# format the timestamp as date expects it (2m2d2H2M4Y.2S)
> +		date -u ${TIMESTAMP:4:8}${TIMESTAMP:0:4}.${TIMESTAMP:(-2)}
>  		test -x /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh && /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh stop
>  	fi
>  fi

The syntax above doesn't appear to work with busybox:

/etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rcS.d/S55bootmisc.sh: line 73: syntax error: bad substitution 

:(

Cheers,

Richard