[asterisk-dev] POSIX timezone handling

[Gregory Nietsky]

Henning Holtschneider wrote:

symlink /etc/localtime to the appropriate zonefile ...

in my case

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Johannesburg /etc/localtime

see the command tzselect
> Hi,
>
> I've got a system which only provides POSIX-style timezone information
> through /etc/TZ and the TZ environment variable. Unfortunately,
> Asterisk doesn't seem to care about the timezone and defaults to GMT.
>
> Looking at main/stdtime/localtime.c, Asterisk seems to be able to
> handle POSIX-style timezones, but I always end up with the string
> "/etc/localtime" being parsed for timezone information. Is the code
> (i.e. tzparse() ) supposed to work? If it does, how to I get Asterisk
> to honor my POSIX-style timezone information?
>
> Best regards,
> Henning Holtschneider
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