Lonnie,
Out of interest, what should /etc/localtime look like, and is it a symlink?
Same for /etc/TZ?
Thanks
Matt
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Lonnie Abelbeck
<li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>wrote:
> Matt,
>
> I appears you are using the web interface, in the Network tab -> "Network
> Time Settings:" what Timezone City did you choose?
>
> To test I chose "America/Los_Angeles" from the menu, then rebooted, and...
>
> pbx ~ # tail -n1 /etc/localtime
> PST8PDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0
>
> which is used as TZ_TIMEZONE.
>
> There are a handful of cities around the world that TZ_TIMEZONE=$(tail -n1
> /etc/localtime) is not a part of the timezone data, for those users
> TZ_TIMEZONE must be set in "/mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/user.conf" (for web interface
> users, Network tab -> User System Variables: {Edit User Variables}) or
> "/mnt/kd/rc.conf" (if "/mnt/kd/rc.conf.d" does not exist)
>
> Matt, please revert your changes:
>
> $ rm /oldroot/mnt/asturw/etc/rc
>
> and give it another try.
>
> Lonnie
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 3:11 AM, Matthew Nichols wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had an issue with the local time on my astlinux box reporting in UTC
> > after the upgrade. Previously it was in PST/PDT. I read from the
> > release notes that TZ_TIMEZONE is no longer required, but I had
> > problems getting the timezone right.
> >
> > In the end this is what I had to do:
> >
> > 1. edit /etc/rc and comment out the following:
> >
> > #uclibc style TZ support
> > #if [ -z "$TZ_TIMEZONE" -a -f /etc/localtime ]; then
> > # TZ_TIMEZONE=$(tail -n1 /etc/localtime)
> > #fi
> >
> > What was happening here is that the env variable $TZ_TIMEZONE didn't
> > exist after a reboot, and because /etc/localtime points to a valid
> > file, I was getting the following set:
> > pbx ~ # tail -n1 /etc/localtime
> > ??eGY?e턠g';?g?f?i?i?H?j???k?e l?mvG n??oV) p??q65ԐV?: X?X? Y??Z??[\??
> > ]??^d? _?y`Mޠa???b-??cgw?d/??EDm?E?? G-?Gӵ I
> > ro?s? tO?t?
> > ?v8??v??x??x?͠y???z???{?f?|~??}?H?~^s??*????????????????
> >
> > PDTPSTPWTPPTpbx ~ #
> >
> > 2. What I did was to write the file /mnt/kd/TZ with the following
> content:
> >
> > PST8PDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2
> >
> > and then /etc/rc will copy /mnt/kd/TZ to /tmp/etc/TZ as per:
> >
> > if [ -n "$TZ_TIMEZONE" ]; then
> > echo "$TZ_TIMEZONE" > /tmp/etc/TZ
> > elif [ -f /mnt/kd/TZ ]; then
> > cp /mnt/kd/TZ /tmp/etc/TZ
> > elif [ -f /stat/etc/TZ ]; then
> > cp /stat/etc/TZ /tmp/etc/TZ
> > fi
> >
> > 3. The last part was to put in symlink for /etc/TZ pointing to
> > /tmp/etc/TZ and I fixed the problem.
> >
> > Am I missing something here or is this problem with /etc/rc incorrect?
> > Having TZ_TIMEZONE in /mnt/kd/rc.local doesn't make any difference. Is
> > this a bug?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
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