Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:44:31 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time wrong with f8 Message-ID: <200812110044.32148.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <20081211103840.18715so8q06f72ko@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <200812102040.29488.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <20081211090543.E11937@ns1.as.pvp.se> <20081211103840.18715so8q06f72ko@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:38:40 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting kama <kama@pvp.se> (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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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