Okay, the libc on the player does indeed look for /etc/localtime, or at least that string exists in the libc file. But I don't seem to have much luck getting it used.

One can do this in bash: export PS1="\@> "
which sets the command prompt to be the 24-hour timeofday, but on my player it just gives me UTC, even when I create /etc/localtime appropriately.
Ditto for the "ls -l" command.

Mmm.. I wonder why it's not working?

-ml