how to set timezone on the chroot environment

[Ted]

Hi, i am just sharing something i learnt new just now. As i was using
nas to rip stream and name the files according to the date, i realized
that the chroot env and the machine root are actually in different
timezones by default. The one u can set in your web gui only makes
effect on the machine root. For the chroot env, the timezone needs to
be set like this:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/_____ /etc/localtime
where as the underscored part is the path to your timezone in the
chroot env, so the
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/___ is actually /usb/sda1/debian/usr/share/
zoneinfo/America/_____
America/_____ doesnt have to be in the America dir, it can be a
directory above such as the UTC or other timezones in other parts of
the world such as Asia.etc.
Hope this is helpful to anyone
Ted

[yk42b7]

Type :

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

and follow the instructions ! it worked great for me.

[Ted]

wow! i didn't find this command, this seems like a wayy more friendly
way of doing it! thanks for sharing!