[yocto] Unable to set system clock

[Lauri Hintsala]

Hello guys,

On 01/11/2012 01:36 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> There is a bug #1767 that can make the system always reset the clock
>>> to the saved timestamp on boot.
>> I am not pretty sure for this because I am able to set system clock
>> using freescale provided rootfs. This problem I am getting only with
>> poky rootfs. I guess I need to change some recipe. It would be a great
>> help if you can help me in that.
>
> The problem is that even when you set the date, your Poky system
> does not use it when the system is rebooted because of this bug.
>
> The simplest work-around (until the bug fix is finalized) is to
> add the 'coreutils' package to your image.

I found the same bug and I fixed it in December. I didn't know there was 
open bug related to that. Anyway patch is available in master branch of 
poky: 
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=91367de75575e79a94b2f90b6b7aa8740a039fc5

Regards,
Lauri Hintsala