[BusyBox] Timezones ?

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Nov 11, 2002 at 03:00:34PM +0800, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> I'm using both Busybox and uClibc from CVS.
> 
> My busybox system has to be able to rdate to sync the clock from
> a debian box. This is all well and good except my debian box keeps
> it's rtc in utc and thus by embeded box winds up -8.00 hrs.
> 
> How can I tell the embeded machine it's +8 ?

If you are using the latest version of uClibc, then you can
create an /etc/TZ file with a single line, ending with a newline
that contains the setting for the TZ environment variable, as
specified by
    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html

i.e. I live in the US Mountain time zone, so
    echo MST7MDT > /etc/TZ
would set the timezone correctly for my uClibc systems.

I suppose we need to update the FAQ... :)

 -Erik

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