Re: Posix Lua VM and os timezone update bug

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On 30 October 2014 21:06, Nenad Kljajić <nenhard@gmail.com> wrote:

scenario:

1. start Lua VM compiled with posix flag running process and use os.date()

2. change system wide timezone settings

3. use again os.date() from the earlier started process

expected result:

changes in system wide timezone settings should reflect return value for os.date()

actual result:

os.date() return value are based on the timezone settings when the Lua VM process was created

I've answered this same question over here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25212106/how-to-update-time-in-lua-to-reflect-system-timezone-change-during-execution/25222760#25222760

On newer systems (that use systemd), you should be able to respond to changes via subscribing to timedated over dbus.

See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated/