Timezone problems

Sat Jul 26 20:38:14 CEST 2008

I'm having trouble setting the timezone on my phone running ASU. I set
the time/date via the command line (date -s) and that works fine.
Next, I link /etc/localtime:
 root at om-gta02:~# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
But date still show UTC time:
 root at om-gta02:~# date
 Sat Jul 26 18:29:37 UTC 2008
As does the phone toolbar and the clock application. Trying "Set Time"
from Clock even shows "New York" as the current timezone.
Is this a known issue?
...cj