Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:54:13 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to determine the time zone a system has ? Message-ID: <20020818195412.GA1426@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020818071521.B58763-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> References: <20020818071521.B58763-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:17:04AM -0700, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > Hello, > > I loosely understand that the correct mechanism to determine the time zone > that a freebsd system has is to md5 a certain file and then compare that > md5 with the time zone files themselves and then look at the name of the > file that matches....i think... Um. No. You run tzsetup(8). That helps you choose among the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo, and copies it to /etc/localtime. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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