FW: To set time zone

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Jan 25 05:37:18 PST 2008


again, this is not a busybox issue

On Friday 25 January 2008, Vinod L R wrote:
> 	I found that uClibc uses /etc/TZ to set the time zone.so will
> changing UCLIBC_TZ_FILE_PATH it to /etc/localtime in
> uClibc-0.9.29.config file will solve my issue??

no.  uClibc only uses POSIX values for timezones, not the myriad of values 
supported by timezone data package.

> 	how do I map this to /etc/localtime so as to set a valid
> timezone.

read the POSIX documentation and map it yourself.  or submit a patch to uClibc 
to make it work with the timezone data package.
-mike
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