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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:42:28 -0500
From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: A timezone question!
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I think that /usr/sbin/tzsetup will handle all this for you...

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:41:06AM -0500, lists  wrote:
> 
> Wow! im confused. This is probably a simple on so please email me off the list, if you care to help my sad self ; >
> 
> I've checked out the faq's about /etc/localtime being linked to /usr/share/...... something or other. When I vi-ed these files I got tons of garbage. 
> 
> I checked all of the rc stuff as well as some other files. 
> 
> I was able to do a: TZ=EST date    but that only works for that terminal session.
> 
> So where do I set the timezone variable? I know its somewhere I'm probably over looking. thanks!
> 
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