Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 11:09:43 -0700 From: Phil Humpherys <humphery@beagle.imall.com> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: timezone problem Message-ID: <199702011809.LAA17391@beagle.imall.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 01 Feb 1997 13:48:40 %2B0100. <199702011248.NAA11742@freebie.lemis.de>
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Greg, I tried exactly what you suggested below, and it didn't work. On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 13:48:40 +0100 (MET) Greg Lehey writes +-------------------- | Phil Humpherys writes: | > | > I installed 2.2-BETA, and during the install, i set my timezone to be | > MST. But my system thinks that the system clock is GMT... HOw do i | > fix this? | | I'm guessing you're used to System V, where time zones are an idea in | the mind of the environment. In FreeBSD, they're determined by the | contents of the file /etc/localtime. To set up your local time zone, | do: | | 1. If "MST" is an abbreviation for "Mountain Standard Time", copy the | contents of /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver to /etc/localtime. | | 2. If "MST" is an abbreviation for "Middle European Summer Time", | copy the contents of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin to | /etc/localtime. | | /etc/localtime also takes care of daylight savings time transitions. | No work required. | | Greg | -pH -------------- Phil Humpherys Email: ph@imall.com Systems Administrator http://ph.imall.com/ iMALL, Inc. Office: +1.801.377.0899 Pager: +1.801.276.3494 "[Stairway to Heaven] is a nice, pleasant, well-meaning, naive, little song. Very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is." Robert Plant - Rolling Stone - 24th. March 1988
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