[ASU] Timezone problems

umaxx umaxx at oleco.net
Tue Sep 16 10:53:54 CEST 2008


On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:24:24 +0300
Yogiz <yogizz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, got my Freerunner a few days ago and I love it. I've ironed out
> most of the problems that bugged me but I__m still having some problems
> with setting the timezone. I did as the wiki says. Tzdata was already
> installed so I replaced /etc/localtime with a soft link
> to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Tallinn. After that I set the right time with
> the date command. Now however, when selecting set clock from the clock
> app in Settings, it shows the timezone as London and all the fields
> are grayed out (except autosetting clock option). The openmoko-dates
> app as well selects london as the default time zone and if I add
> events using Europe/Tallinn then they're couple hours amiss. When I
> use the date command it shows output as "Tue Sep 16 11:23:21 EEST
> 2008" - EEST should afaik be the right setting.
> 
> Any help? If I should provide any extra information let me know.

Try to edit the /etc/timezone file too.
I think the wiki is missing this.

Regards,

J__rg




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