From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 5 06:05:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22670 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 06:05:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22661 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 06:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA15040; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:34:16 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id WAA24208; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:34:14 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980905223413.S606@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:34:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ben Smithurst , Marty Cawthon , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using GMT as Timezone References: <19980905131608.A20345@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980905131608.A20345@scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 01:16:08PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 5 September 1998 at 13:16:08 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Marty Cawthon wrote: > >> I would like to run my FreeBSD machine with a default Timezone >> using GMT. >> >> I cannot seem to select GMT/UTC in the 'tzsetup' program. >> Can you provide some pointers? > > A complete guess, but would removing /etc/localtime and > /etc/wall_cmos_clock help? Perhaps if it can't find them it would assume > GMT by default. Take a look in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc. It contains entries for both UTC and GMT. But why do you want to do that? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message