Setting timezones

Robert Withrow witr at rwwa.com
Fri Nov 2 17:14:37 CET 2007


I've searched the Wiki and the mailing lists and the Internet in
general, and what I see for setting the timezone on my Neo is to either
install "timezones" or "tzdata" and the link the appropriate thing into
/etc/localtime.  Neither way works for me.

This is with tzdata, but I get the same result using timezones and
timezone-america:

root at fic-gta01:/usr/share/zoneinfo$ date
Thu Nov  1 23:48:10 UTC 2007
root at fic-gta01:/usr/share/zoneinfo$ ipkg install tzdata-americas
tzdata-posix
Installing tzdata-americas (2007e-r0) to root...
Downloading
http://buildhost.openmoko.org/OM2007.2/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/armv4t/tzdata-americas_2007e-r0_armv4t.ipk
Installing tzdata-posix (2007e-r0) to root...
Downloading
http://buildhost.openmoko.org/OM2007.2/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/armv4t/tzdata-posix_2007e-r0_armv4t.ipk
Configuring tzdata-americas
Configuring tzdata-posix
root at fic-gta01:/usr/share/zoneinfo$ ln -s
/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/US/Eastern /etc/localtime
root at fic-gta01:/usr/share/zoneinfo$ date
Thu Nov  1 23:49:19 UTC 2007
root at fic-gta01:/usr/share/zoneinfo$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           36 Nov  1 23:49 /etc/localtime
-> /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/US/Eastern
root at fic-gta01:/usr/share/zoneinfo$ /bin/date
Thu Nov  1 23:50:23 UTC 2007

What stupid mistake am I making?

-- 
Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott, MA, USA



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