Fixing Timezone

I had some trouble with the wrong timezone being used in SHR-unstable. It would use EST no matter what I did with /etc/timezone. This turned out to be a simple fix. Just add a section to /etc/frameworkd.conf for otimed. The one I used is below:

[otimed]
# a list of time/zone sources to use or NONE
timesources = GPS,NTP
zonesources = NONE

Next, restart frameworkd with /etc/init.d/frameworkd restart. Note that your /etc/timezone may have been overwritten, so you need to set it back to the correct timezone.

Timezones are in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ and can be copied over to /etc/localtime or /etc/timezone as needed. You can also link /etc/localtime or /etc/timezone to the appropriate timezone in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. Note that if you had linked to a timezone in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ when the timezone was overwritten, you will need to fix the file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. You can use opkg search /usr/share/zoneinfo/whatever/file to find out which package contains it, and then opkg install -force-reinstall pkgname to reinstall it.

After this, you can run date to see what timezone the system is using.