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Date:      Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:25:38 +0100 (CET)
From:      kama <kama@pvp.se>
To:        Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Time wrong with f8
Message-ID:  <20081211090543.E11937@ns1.as.pvp.se>
In-Reply-To: <200812102040.29488.beech@alaskaparadise.com>
References:  <200812102040.29488.beech@alaskaparadise.com>

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On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Beech Rintoul wrote:

> I'm having a problem with f8 and skype. Since I switched from f7 to f8 linux
> apps are reading my time as GMT instead of localtime. Is there something I
> need to setup to get the proper time?

You need to set the timezone within the linuxulator.

In gentoo, which I use, you can just copy /etc/localtime to
/compat/linux/etc. But if I recall correctly f8 uses a different version
and need todo it in the same way as f8 does.

I believe the zonefiles are located under /usr/share/zoneinfo so...

cp /compat/linux/usr/share/zoneinfo/CET /compat/linux/etc/localtime

... should to the trick if the zonefiles even are installed, otherwise you
need to add that rpm package. tzdata-2008h-1.fc8.noarch.rpm should
probably be used, it apperently have some changes when DST is used on a
couple of zones. (http://n2.nabble.com/change-timezone--td1400491.html)

/Bjorn



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