Time and Timezone issues...
"Marco Trevisan (Treviño)"
mail at 3v1n0.net
Wed Sep 3 04:22:29 CEST 2008
Setting the right time in my device is the only problem I wasn't able to
solve yet since the very first time... :o.
What I've done following the Date [1] and Timezone [2] wikis:
- installed ntpclient
- installed tzdata-europe
- set the time using ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org
- synced with the hardware clock
- exported TZ=:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome in ~/.profile
Now, if I re-set the time using ntp I get the right time (in my
timezone), but if restart the device (without network connectivity, as
generally happens when you boot a phone!) I get back the UTC time
([mytime] - [2hours])!
This is too bad! To make my TZ to be considered I must run again the
ntpclient, but this need a network connectivity :|.
Any suggestion? If I syn-link /etc/timezone to my timezone file the same
happens (and on reboot the link is removed).
Then, in my phone I've two OS: qtopia (on SD) and 2008.8. I'd like to
keep both the clocks synced (not to change the time on each startup).
Ah... Time! :|
[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Date
[2] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Timezone
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