[beagleboard] Re: Atlantic Canada Timezone

2014-05-11 Thread DLF
In Debian, I find it inside usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/ On Sunday, 11 May 2014 00:53:46 UTC+2, mike rankin wrote: > > I'm having trouble finding the Atlantic Canada Timezone for setting up the > time being pulled over ethernet from the instructions at: > http://www.circuidipity.com/getting-sta

[beagleboard] Re: Atlantic Canada Timezone

2014-05-12 Thread mike rankin
I'm using Angstrom and Canada is not located anywhere in usr/share/zoneinfo On another note, The BBB is new to me and I'm a nube going through the Getting Started with the BeagleBone Black book examples. If I were to install Debian onto it, can I still follow the book examples? I get the feeling

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Atlantic Canada Timezone

2014-05-12 Thread dumb looks free
yes there is a shift to Debian and I believe the new boards are being shipped with Debian rather than Angstrom. I'm not sure what that means in terms of your book, but given that you are new to BBB, I'd continue to work on the examples with Angstrom and the book. Once you get a footing, jump over

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Atlantic Canada Timezone

2014-05-12 Thread DLF
Hi, Me Again , do you see /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Halifax ??? On Monday, 12 May 2014 17:29:04 UTC+2, DLF wrote: > > yes there is a shift to Debian and I believe the new boards are being > shipped with Debian rather than Angstrom. > > I'm not sure what that means in terms of your book

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Atlantic Canada Timezone

2014-05-12 Thread mike rankin
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Halifax is not there at all. Just- Anchorage Caracas Chicago Denver Los_Angeles New_York Sao_Paulo appears. Unknown package 'tzdata-canada' appears when I try sudo opkg install tzdata-canada. Mike On Monday, May 12, 2014 2:47:10 PM UTC-3, DLF wrote: > > Hi,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Atlantic Canada Timezone

2014-05-12 Thread Bill Traynor
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:08 PM, mike rankin <0mik...@gmail.com> wrote: > /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Halifax is not there at all. > Just- Anchorage Caracas Chicago Denver Los_Angeles New_York Sao_Paulo > appears. > > Unknown package 'tzdata-canada' appears when I try sudo opkg install > tzda

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Atlantic Canada Timezone

2014-05-13 Thread mike rankin
Cool! Have to give that a try. Messed around with it last night and to get the time set correctly I found GMT+1, GMT+2... inside and Etc directory. Finding the correct one for my timezone worked well. Thanks for the help! On Monday, May 12, 2014 10:43:11 PM UTC-3, Bill Traynor wrote: > > On Mon

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Atlantic Canada Timezone

2014-05-15 Thread David Farning
I am going through the same process you are describing. There are many advantages to community development... but one of them is not having third party documentation ready on for release dates. As a new BeagleBone user, I have found it easiest to work though existing blogs and howtos using the An