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Hmm ... am I missing where to set the time zone, or is it just not there? Got to say that for a few hours XBMC has been streaming 720p stuff with no buffering, no stuttering and great picture. The GUI is a bit sluggish but perhaps it's because it seems to be in windowed mode.
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valkur
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Set to PST by default, this worked for me, obviously change Canada/Mountain to whatever you need.
SSH into ATV2
cd /private/var/db/timezone
rm localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Mountain localtime
killall AppleTV
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ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT localtime
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Reggie, no
log into via terminal (i guess you have a mac, since you are using cyberduck?)
and type
cd /private/var/db/timezone
rm localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/**Canada/Mountain** localtime
killall AppleTV
where **Canada/Mountain** replace with
America/Chicago
so
this is your method....
cd /private/var/db/timezone
rm localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/**America/Chicago** localtime
killall AppleTV
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kreuze
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Whats the code for Melbourne Australia?
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Cheers for the instructions, none of the apple OS stuff needs a timezone, I believe they're all set to PST as standard.
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Well, I just changed the localtime symlink to GB and it's working fine for me now.
However, I'd like to challenge the comments made that the time and timezone doesn't matter. If you boot up an ATV2 with a network connection but no Internet connection and it can't ntp sync to time.apple.com it refuses to boot. The device even runs it's own ntpd to constantly stay in sync. It may not care what the local time is but it certainly cares about what time it is in PST. This leads me to believe that the time IS important to it and I'm guessing it has a lot to do with movie rentals from iTunes. Not sure how this would impact the running of the rest of the system but there could be unforeseen side effects to this...