[OE-core] [PATCH] base-files: don't export TZ="UTC" from /etc/profile

Andre McCurdy armccurdy at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 18:51:12 UTC 2016


If no /etc/localtime (or /etc/TZ for uclibc) is found, then the libc
will default to UTC, so setting UTC as a fallback default via the TZ
environment variable is redundant.

Since having the TZ environment variable set causes /etc/localtime
to be ignored, it can cause confusion if /etc/localtime is added
interactively after /etc/profile has been run.

Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com>
---
 meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/profile | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/profile b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/profile
index a52bf89..0a05e45 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/profile
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/base-files/base-files/profile
@@ -5,12 +5,6 @@ PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
 EDITOR="vi"			# needed for packages like cron, git-commit
 test -z "$TERM" && TERM="vt100"	# Basic terminal capab. For screen etc.
 
-if [ ! -e /etc/localtime -a ! -e /etc/TZ ]; then
-	TZ="UTC"		# Time Zone. Look at http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/gnu/glibc/libc_303.html
-				# for an explanation of how to set this to your local timezone.
-	export TZ
-fi
-
 if [ "$HOME" = "ROOTHOME" ]; then
    PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
 fi
-- 
1.9.1




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