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Date:      Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:06:26 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Default time zone setting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.53.0406091603290.62813@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <200406091558.i59Fw1PI052371@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:20:56 +0000 (UTC), "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> said:
>
> > please do and if you are about UTC can you PLEASE also update the
> > somewhat unrelated tzsetup to be able to chose timezones from
> > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/ (where UTC lives) too ?
>
> tzsetup(8) only offers zones that are listed in zone.tab -- i.e.,
> zones that are associated with a state or national region.  If you
> want UTC, don't run tzsetup, and delete /etc/localtime if you already
> have one.

I know how to do this but sysinstall uses tzsetup. So when installing
releases from CD on new machines it is not possible to set UTC.

>   I don't believe that any of the files in
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc serve a useful purpose.

all my maschines have /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC as /etc/localtime
up to now.

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT



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