Re: TZ variable setting for denx 2.4.20

[Tony Lee <tony.p.lee@gmail.com>]

What's denx?
Anyway, in my embeded ppc-linux, I set it with 
/etc/TZ

echo "PST8PDT" > /etc/TZ to set it to pacific time.

Have fun.

-Tony


On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:58:42 +0530, Robin <robin@india.tejasnetworks.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Thanx for your response. I am setting TZ variable as
> given in the documentation.
>    export TZ="xxx5:30yyy4:30,M10.1.1,M2.1.1"
> Its working fine till Dec 31 23:59:59GMT. On Jan 01 00:00:00,
>  its not taking DST into account at all.
> 
> Please tell me some way of setting it across an year boundary.
> Thanks,
> Robin
> 
> Marius Groeger wrote:
> 
> > Robin,
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Robin wrote:
> >
> >> I have tried with the standard linux date too. That too doesnt seem
> >> to consider timezone variable that has been set. Can you give me a
> >> way for setting timezone for southern hemisphere countries?? The
> >> busybox code uses strftime function. But that does not seem to
> >> consider TZ variable...
> >
> >
> > You should read up on how glibc handles all that timezone stuff:
> >
> >   sh# info libc "TZ Variable"
> >
> > Most notably, make sure you /etc/localtime is set up correctly. There
> > is also a tool (script) called tzselect which may be helpful for you.
> >
> > Note I'm not exactly an expert on this, I'm just giving pointers...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marius
> >
> 
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-- 
-Tony
Having fun with FPGA HW + ppc + Linux