yes there is a shift to Debian and I believe the new boards are being shipped with Debian rather than Angstrom.
I'm not sure what that means in terms of your book, but given that you are new to BBB, I'd continue to work on the examples with Angstrom and the book. Once you get a footing, jump over to Debian. I'm no expert but maybe a package is missing in Angstrom for the Atlantic time zone ... maybe try something like (use at your own risk) sudo opkg update sudo opkg install tzdata-canada good luck On 12 May 2014 15:00, mike rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm using Angstrom and Canada is not located anywhere in usr/share/zoneinfo > On another note, > The BBB is new to me and I'm a nube going through the Getting Started with > the BeagleBone Black book examples. If I were to install Debian onto it, > can I still follow the book examples? I get the feeling that Debian is > preferred for some reason over Angstrom. > > On Monday, May 12, 2014 2:17:44 AM UTC-3, DLF wrote: >> >> In Debian, I find it inside >> usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/ >> >> >> >> On Sunday, 11 May 2014 00:53:46 UTC+2, mike rankin wrote: >>> >>> I'm having trouble finding the Atlantic Canada Timezone for setting up >>> the time being pulled over ethernet from the instructions at: >>> http://www.circuidipity.com/getting-started-with-beaglebone-black.html >>> Inside usr/share/zoneinfo/ I cannot find the Atlantic timezone. >>> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
