To set time zone

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Wed Jan 23 05:05:22 PST 2008


On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Vinod L R wrote:
>     when  trying to set the timezone by doing the following:

the timezone stuff is handled by the system libc, not busybox.  please read 
the FAQ:
http://busybox.net/FAQ.html#tz

>     ln -sf  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Cairo /etc/localtime.

uClibc does not use /etc/localtime nor does it understand the timezone data 
files released by the nih gov

>     /etc/timezone has Africa/Cairo

this file is used by the distribution only, not the libc and certainly not 
busybox
-mike
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