Re: Weird time/date skew

El Mar 04 Jun 2002 21:45, Sunil Vemuri escribió:
> I've found some odd time/date behavior on opie (running on iPaq,
> Familiar)
>
> I first set up Familiar to my local timezone (EDT) by putting the
> appropriate "localtime" file in the /etc directory. I then used
> "ntpdate" to syncrhonize with a time server and finally synced the
> hardware clock to the software clock using "hwclock --systohc" After
> doing this, I correctly get the time.
>
> Tue Jun 4 15:28:21 2002 -0.293093 seconds
> sh-2.03# date
> Tue Jun 4 15:28:20 EDT 2002
> sh-2.03#
>
> I did all of that by getting a shell via serial cable. However, when I
> run OPIE's Terminal app, I get the wrong time whenever I run the 'date'
> command:
>
> sh-2.03# date
> Tue Jun 4 19:28:30 America/New_York 2002
>
> Running 'date' again from the serial shell confirms the time is
> 15:xx:xx, while OPIE's Time/Date app confirms that all applications
> running under OPIE think the time 19:xx:xx. It seems OPIE is using a
> different timezone mechanism than what is found in "/etc/localtime".
>
> Could someone advise me on the right way to get both OPIE's clock and
> Familiar's clock to say the same thing?
>
> Thanks,
> --Sunil

Edit /root/Settings/locale.conf and set a valid subdirectory in timezones
package of Opie.
        ipkg files timezones
For example, for the //usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Madrid file, my
/root/Settings/locale.conf is:

[Language]
[Location]
Timezone = Europe/Madrid
Received on Wed Jun 05 23:11:57 2002