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Clock is wrong and I can't change the time zone setting

 
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:41 am    Post subject: Clock is wrong and I can't change the time zone setting Reply with quote
When I click the clock to adjust the date and time which is off usually by one or two hours exactly, I get the following error:
"The Time Zone defined at the system level seems invalid. Using "America/New York as default."

[img]http://users.cvalley.net/n0vxd/N0VXD_files/error.jpg

When I get into the window to change date and time properties, If I click the time zones drop down box I get the following error: "listDir: Could not open directory > usr".

[/img]http://users.cvalley.net/n0vxd/N0VXD_files/error2.jpg

Any help would be appreciated.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
That sounds like a permissions error. What does it do when you login as the root (Administrator)?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:35 pm    Post subject: Clock and Time Zone settings Reply with quote
Monster_user wrote:
That sounds like a permissions error. What does it do when you login as the root (Administrator)?


I get the exact same error when logged on as root.

I also tried running tzselect from console as root and got the following error:

APRS:~# tzselect
/usr/bin/tzselect: line 53: /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab: No such file or dir ectory
/usr/bin/tzselect: time zone files are not set up correctly
APRS:~#
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I figured it out, I just copied the zoneinfo directory from usr/share/zoninfo/*.* from one xandros pc to another.

Apparently the folder had been corrupted or something.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Glad to hear it. It had be a bit puzzled.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
hmm.. it seems i have the same prob.. but i dont have another pc to copy from.. is this info easily copied from the disk?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Neflhiem wrote:
hmm.. it seems i have the same prob.. but i dont have another pc to copy from.. is this info easily copied from the disk?


You can get it from here I tarred mine up.
http://www.cafecomputer.com/hold/zone.tar
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wow, the same thing happened to me when I attempted to install automatic password generator (APG) at XN. The install was a mess. As far as I know, it messed up two apps: gphoto2 and my clock applet. I noticed that my zone directory was completely gone from usr/share. Why would an APG install do that? I had no idea I was asking for something so complicated.

BTW: Thanks for the zoneinfo dir.
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