Re: Time and Timezone issues...

2008-09-04 Thread arne anka
> down side of symlinks ... and java (at least sun's java) will refuse to use it. for reasons unbeknownst to man, java insist on having /etc/localtime as real file, not a symlink -- though i don't think sun's java will run in foreseeable future on the fr, other implementations or programs may

Re: Time and Timezone issues...

2008-09-04 Thread Harald Koenig
On Sep 04, Rod Whitby wrote: > Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > >> better not set TZ but do once (once after every update/upgrade?!): > >> > >>cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome /etc/localtime > > Even better to make that a symlink, then if your city ever changes it's > daylight savings rule

Re: Time and Timezone issues...

2008-09-03 Thread Rod Whitby
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: >> better not set TZ but do once (once after every update/upgrade?!): >> >> cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome /etc/localtime Even better to make that a symlink, then if your city ever changes it's daylight savings rule, then you will automatically get the upda

Re: Time and Timezone issues...

2008-09-03 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Harald Koenig wrote: > On Sep 03, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" wrote: > >> - exported TZ=:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome in ~/.profile > > your ~/.profile isn't valid for system processes and at boot time etc. > if at all, this should go to /etc/profile I didn't mentioned, but I tested also tha

Re: Time and Timezone issues...

2008-09-03 Thread Harald Koenig
On Sep 03, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" wrote: > - exported TZ=:/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome in ~/.profile your ~/.profile isn't valid for system processes and at boot time etc. if at all, this should go to /etc/profile : ---

RE: Time and Timezone issues...

2008-09-03 Thread Crane, Matthew
ge- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Johnson Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 5:09 AM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Time and Timezone issues... On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > Setting the right time in my devic

Re: Time and Timezone issues...

2008-09-03 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > Setting the right time in my device is the only problem I wasn't able to > solve yet since the very first time... :o. > > What I've done following the Date [1] and Timezone [2] wikis: > - installed ntpclient > - installed tzdata-

Time and Timezone issues...

2008-09-02 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Setting the right time in my device is the only problem I wasn't able to solve yet since the very first time... :o. What I've done following the Date [1] and Timezone [2] wikis: - installed ntpclient - installed tzdata-europe - set the time using ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org - synced with