Cool! Have to give that a try. Messed around with it last night and to get 
the time set correctly I found GMT+1, GMT+2... inside and Etc directory. 
Finding the correct one for my timezone worked well.

Thanks for the help!

On Monday, May 12, 2014 10:43:11 PM UTC-3, Bill Traynor wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:08 PM, mike rankin <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Halifax is not there at all. 
> > Just- Anchorage  Caracas  Chicago  Denver  Los_Angeles  New_York 
>  Sao_Paulo 
> > appears. 
> > 
> > Unknown package 'tzdata-canada' appears when I try sudo opkg install 
> > tzdata-canada. 
> > 
>
> Try tzdata-atlantic 
>
> Other tzdata packages should be: 
>
> tzdata-africa 
> tzdata-americas 
> tzdata-antarctica 
> tzdata-arctic 
> tzdata-asia 
> tzdata-atlantic 
> tzdata-australia 
> tzdata-europe 
> tzdata-misc 
> tzdata-pacific 
> tzdata-posix 
> tzdata-right 
>
> > 
> > Mike 
> > 
> > 
> > On Monday, May 12, 2014 2:47:10 PM UTC-3, DLF wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Hi, 
> >> Me Again ...., 
> >> 
> >> do you see /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Halifax  ??? 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Monday, 12 May 2014 17:29:04 UTC+2, DLF wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> 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. 
> >>>> 
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