timezones via TZ

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Jan 13 18:54:22 UTC 2006


On Friday 13 January 2006 10:56, hinko.kocevar at cetrtapot.si wrote:
> Jason Schoon wrote:
> > Are you using uclibc, or glibc?  Uclibc has it's own simplified handling
> > of timezones in comparison to glibc.
>
> Yes, sorry about that, I'm using uClibc.
> I already recieved the answer that solves my problem. It seems that
> despite the fact that I'm using uClibc I need to put /etc/localtime on
> the target system - I just copied /etc/localtime from host machine to
> target rootfs - and voila... The date shows CET instead of UTC. All
> remaining TZ stuff is simply ignored?!

are you sure you're using uClibc properly ?  nowhere in uClibc 
is /etc/localtime utilized
-mike



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