Bug#270239: Timezone configuration should not show 'UTC' after system time

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Monday, September 6, 2004, at 11:00 PM, Joey Hess wrote:

> Rick Thomas wrote:
> > Apparently, it looks at the "LANG" environment variable...
> >
> > 	LANG=C /sbin/hwclock --show --localtime
> > gives
> > 	Tue Sep  7 02:22:16 2004  -0.463550 seconds
> > but
> > 	LANG=en_US /sbin/hwclock --show --localtime
> > gives
> > 	Tue 07 Sep 2004 02:23:24 AM EDT  -0.950496 seconds
>
> Ok, I see: I have LC_TIME=C while LANG=en_US.
>
> > Suggested fix: Use a "LANG=C" prefix.
>
> That really doesn't work, the time display needs to be localised along
> with everything else.
>
> Unfortunatly I can't think of a good way to remove the time zone from
> the display that'll work for all LC_TIME settings.
>
> --
> see shy jo

OK: How about this

	/sbin/hwclock --show --localtime --debug | sed -n 's/Time read 
from Hardware Clock: //p'
which prints this
	2004/09/07 05:03:27
Which is pretty much language/locale independent.

Rick