Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 10:50:25 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org> To: humphery@beagle.imall.com (Phil Humpherys) Cc: grog@lemis.de, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: timezone problem Message-ID: <199702011850.KAA00348@superior.truenorth.org> In-Reply-To: <199702011809.LAA17391@beagle.imall.com> from Phil Humpherys at "Feb 1, 97 11:09:43 am"
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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 >| > You need to have a touch file, "/etc/wall_cmos_clock". This tells the system that the CMOS clock is set to local time not Zulu. RTFM adjkerntz(8) Josef -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses
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