[BusyBox] Timezones ?

[Brad Campbell]

Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> 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... :)

Ahha! That would certainly make it easier to configure over the wire as 
I could copy that file from another partition on my CF Card on bootup.

I'm using the fpc pascal compiler for some software and it's RTL does not
support the TZ variable. I'm going to fix that tonight now I know what's
going on. I could also cat the /etc/TZ file to the TZ variable in my
/etc/profile and cover all the bases.

For those it may interest, I'm having great success with booting of a CF
card, setting up a ramdisk and un-mounting the card. I can then take it
out, put it in a windows laptop to re-configure some ini files stored
on a fat32 partition, pop it back in the slot and do a soft reload of the
files without having to re-boot.
Makes on-the-fly configuration by non linux savy techs very easy.


Oh, and while I'm here.
Gentlemen the new uClibc and busybox config systems are brilliant :p)

I guess to put that in laymans terms.. they ROCK!

-- 
Brad....
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