From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 09:44:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9714C106564A for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:44:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com (bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com [208.86.224.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 732748FC1F for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:44:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (172-67-237-24.gci.net [24.237.67.172]) by bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C447B28E2EA5; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:44:32 +0000 (UTC) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: FreeBSD To: Alexander Leidinger Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:44:31 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.1.3; i386; ; ) References: <200812102040.29488.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <20081211090543.E11937@ns1.as.pvp.se> <20081211103840.18715so8q06f72ko@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20081211103840.18715so8q06f72ko@webmail.leidinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812110044.32148.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time wrong with f8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beech@alaskaparadise.com List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:44:33 -0000 On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:38:40 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting kama (from Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:25:38 +0100 (CET)): > > 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) > > It's a known issue. Search the archives. Maybe Boris has a fix for f8 > (wait for the ports tree to be unfrozen). We hope that the import a > the new tzcode into FreeBSD solves the issue (by using the same new > format for /etc/localtime). I don't know when this will be imported. > > Bye, > Alexander. Thanks, I just downloaded the latest rpm extracted it with rpm2cpio and installed by hand. Seems to work :-) Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------