Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:28:02 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: timezone command Message-ID: <20040416035802.GM24048@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKEAFFMAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKEAFFMAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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--sMkrXc3gAYLRVOjR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thursday, 15 April 2004 at 22:15:06 -0400, JJB wrote: > Time zone has been set during sysinstall. > Is there an console command to display my configured time zone like > format +05:00? Not quite like that (are you in Pakistan?). The problem is that time zones aren't that simple: they contain information about daylight savings time, as well as implicit historical information that gets lost when you reduce it to a number. Admittedly, Pakistan doesn't seem to have DST, but that's the way it is. In general, the system time zone is stored in the file /etc/localtime. You can set it with: # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Karachi /etc/localtime=20 # date Fri Apr 16 08:55:27 PKT 2004 If you remove it, it defaults to "GMT" (really UTC): # rm /etc/localtime # date Fri Apr 16 03:55:37 GMT 2004 Even then, you can specify the time zone explicitly with the TZ environment variable: # TZ=3DAsia/Karachi date Fri Apr 16 08:55:45 PKT 2004 Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --sMkrXc3gAYLRVOjR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAf1nKIubykFB6QiMRAkXCAJ0XcsTgxl4btyVEy0CXklfSd5KiagCgjljZ 06pAs4AWQ+bODOBZOyGa1uU= =C3de -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sMkrXc3gAYLRVOjR--
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