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Title: Setting The Time In Australia
Post by: darmou on February 03, 2006, 08:04:44 pm
I can't seem to work out how to set the correct time zone for Australia.  I have installed the timezones-australia package but can't seem to work out which is the correct timezone when I set the time using EST which I assume in Australian Eastern standard Time sets the time to some strange time so perhaps EST is a US time zone?

Thanks for any advice.

darmou
Title: Setting The Time In Australia
Post by: Meanie on February 03, 2006, 08:17:03 pm
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I can't seem to work out how to set the correct time zone for Australia.  I have installed the timezones-australia package but can't seem to work out which is the correct timezone when I set the time using EST which I assume in Australian Eastern standard Time sets the time to some strange time so perhaps EST is a US time zone?

Thanks for any advice.

darmou
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Australian Eastern Time is AET or +10 GMT
Title: Setting The Time In Australia
Post by: darmou on February 04, 2006, 10:44:02 pm
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Australian Eastern Time is AET or +10 GMT
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Here are a list of timezones that the Zaurus timezone settings gives me.

UTC/WET/GMT
MET/MEZ/CET/SWT
EET
BT
IST
WAST
CCT
JST
GST/EAST
IDLE/NZT
HST
AkST/YST
PST
MST
CST
EST
AST
WAT

I assume none of these are correct?

Did you get AET to show up in the list Meanie?
Title: Setting The Time In Australia
Post by: darmou on February 11, 2006, 10:12:52 pm
Ok I got the correct time zone to work.  

I did a ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne /etc/localtime

and it worked.

I also got mplayer to work.  I included the opie feed in the list of feeds and installed mplayer then used:

mplayer -ac mad mymp3.mp3  or mplayer -ac mad -fs -framedrop mymovie.mpg

to play movies.  Use:

mplayer myvorbis.ogg to play oggs or mplayer -fs -framedrop mymovie.ogm

to play ogms.  The mad libs should only be used for mp3s.
 
darmou