Setting timezones

Hi folks,

Some more feedback here. I tried setting the timezone with the
"Date/Time" application. I set it to Europe/Amsterdam, since that's
where I live. I also linked /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin to
/etc/localtime. I'd rather use Europe/Amsterdam, but that file wasn't
there, and Berlin is in the same timezone anyway.

If I then set the time with the "Date/Time" application using
ntp.xs4all.nl (also situated in Amsterdam) the clock is set two hours
back, i.e. to UTC. This also happens when I open the console and type
'ntpdate ntp.xs4all.nl'. This is via the Opie console:

    root@spitz:~# echo $TZ
    Europe/Amsterdam
    root@spitz:~# date
    Thu Apr  6 09:00:35 Europe/Amsterdam 2006

The weird thing is, that if I log in via SSH/WiFi, and type 'ntpdate
ntp.xs4all.nl', the clock is set to the correct timezone. This is via
the WiFi SSH shell:

    root@spitz:~# echo $TZ

    root@spitz:~# date
    Thu Apr  6 11:00:38 CEST 2006


After installing timezones-europe, linking
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam to /etc/localtime, and rebooting,
I get:

    root@spitz:~# date
    Mon Mar 20 08:24:11 CET 2006

on both the Opie console and the SSH console. Running 'ntpdate' one
last time set the clock straight.

So the bottom of the story is this: when you pick a city off the map
to select your timezone, you might be selecting a city that doesn't
work. Would it be a lot of work to alter the map to only show cities
for which it actually knows timezone information?

-- 
Sybren Stüvel

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
-- Albert Einstein

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