Bug#260303: base-config: hwclock | cut doesn't work in some locales

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

Package: base-config
Version: 2.35
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

In some locales, the "cut -d ' ' -f 1-6" that tzsetup does to remove
drift information doesn't work properly, because ctime() output in those
locales doesn't contain the same number of spaces. This is quite
noticeable in ja_JP.UTF-8, for instance.

Using "sed 's/  .*//'" instead works better, since ctime() output
doesn't seem to contain a double space in any locale I can see while
hwclock always outputs the double space.

The following patch fixes this:

  http://www.no-name-yet.com/patches/base-config.hwclock-cut.diff

I've also filed bug #260272 asking for a proper option to hwclock so
that this hack can be removed.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]