Bug#292269: more info from Gnome developers on this issue

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 01:17 +0100, Marc Dequènes wrote:
> Coin,
> 
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:
> 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167198
> >
> > Here is the update from the Gnome developers:
> >
> > ------- Additional Comments From Vincent Untz  2005-02-13 03:42 -------
> > Thanks for looking at the problem in depth.
> >
> > I suppose Debian maintainers made the patch so the clock knows when the
> > timezone changes. This is not the right fix. You should probably mention
> > that newer glibc (2.3.3, I think) fix this behaviour for all programs...
> 
> Thanks for this information.
> 
> I asked a glibc maintainer.
> He told me the application would still have to tzset() once in a while,
> and that function is fixed in 2.3.3, you were right.
> 
> I would have liked to simply drop this patch, but 2.3.3 will not be in
> Sarge, so the timezone bug is gonna remain.
> 
> So i'm leaving this drawback for now.
> :-(
> 

Can't we do it less often?  0.1% CPU on a 600Mhz machine is a hell of a
lot of cycles.  For example this would cause laptops to never go into
idle mode!

Lee