How to change the Timezone

[Miroslaw Dach]

Thank you for all the hints. Below I enclose steps I did and what works 
for me:

All is described here in great details:
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html

The steps I did are described below:

1. Download the tar file which contains the configurations data of every 
   time zone   (the name can change with time tzdata2007f.tar.gz so
   maybe it is better first to see what the server contains )

wget ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007f.tar.gz

2. Untar the package

tar zxvf tzdata2007f.tar.gz

3. Compile the config data for certain area. The compiled files will be 
stored in the directory after -d option (in my case zoneinfo1). Launch 
zic compiler  on the host computer.

/usr/sbin/zic -d zoneinfo1 europe

4. Install the time zone data on the remote computer

cp zoneinfo1/CET /etc/.
ln -s /etc/CET /etc/localtime


Best Regards

Mirek

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Monday 09 July 2007, Miroslaw Dach wrote:
> > 	Thank you for the suggestion. I use glibc. I have copied across
> > the zoneinfo directory contents ie. (iso3166.tab and zone.tab) under
> > /etc/timezone. I have setup the time zone according to the file zone.tab
> > TZ=Europe/Zurich
> >
> > Next I have started the ntpd but I still see the time difference of 2 hours
> > (ie, UTC time instead of the new time zone).
> 
> considering this isnt a busybox issue, perhaps you should go ask on a glibc 
> list or read the glibc manual
> -mike
> 

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