Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:38:40 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: kama <kama@pvp.se> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> Subject: Re: Time wrong with f8 Message-ID: <20081211103840.18715so8q06f72ko@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20081211090543.E11937@ns1.as.pvp.se> References: <200812102040.29488.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <20081211090543.E11937@ns1.as.pvp.se>
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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 li= nux >> 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 =20 (wait for the ports tree to be unfrozen). We hope that the import a =20 the new tzcode into FreeBSD solves the issue (by using the same new =20 format for /etc/localtime). I don't know when this will be imported. Bye, Alexander. --=20 If you laid all of our laws end to end, there would be no end. =09=09-- Mark Twain http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137
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