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Sorry if this is something simple I'm missing but I've installed the 9.11 Beta 2 build on my mac mini hoping this would be fixed but no luck. The time in XBMC is off by 10 hours from my system clock and there is no place to change it in the settings. I've seen the instructions to set it under setting -> appearance but I don't have any options there. What am I missing?
Thanks
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Thanks for the reply, I've checked there and there are no options other than selecting my location, which is set correctly. Also, after looking again it's actually off by 6 hours rather than 10. Thanks
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I have an Apple TV and I had to set my timezone through the command line. I changed the link to the timezone file with the ln command. The exact command that I used was:
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime
You can type
ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/
to display other available US zones.
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i always have Nito installed and there is a setting within there for time / time zone. once set in there i have the correct time in boxee and xbmc.
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Thanks for the suggestions but still no luck. The /etc/localtime is properly linked and the permissions are correct. I've even tried totally wiping out XBMC and any other related software and re-installing. Any plists in odd places I could possibly be missing? I've done a find for all things xbmc and deleted them. I've also installed on an imac with no problem so this really feels like a permissions issue or a config from an old installation. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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FYI, I finally figured out that the zoneinfo file /etc/localtime pointed to was a 0 byte file. After transferring over a good zoneinfo file from an imac it finally works. Thanks for the tips.
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try syncing the atv to itunes (on a pc/mac).
you don't have to sync any content, just link up the atv to the itunes.
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i also had this problem, original AppleTV, xbmc 10.1 but mine was exactly an hour out. (i knew by ssh'ing into the atv and typing 'date', so its wasnt xbmc's fault. i thought maybe as i block apple updates through Launcher it was why it didnt recognise daylight saving), but none of it worked.
i followed ptricky's post but here in the UK typed
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
boom.
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Sdpbc
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Hmmm .. having the same issue on my ATV. Have tried the command lines to change to US\Eastern but it doesn't do anything. Seems stuck in Pacific. Doesn't appear to be any settings in Nito I can change either. Surprised there isn't anything in the XBMC settings section for time zone?
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ATV1 (silver) or ATV2 (black) ?
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leetut
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Set mine in the apple tv settings and that updated what was going on in xbmc, find it hard to believe no one here has said that
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Haha!!! Awesome post... Thanks