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Date:      Sat, 5 Sep 1998 22:34:13 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, Marty Cawthon <mrc@ChipChat.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using GMT as Timezone
Message-ID:  <19980905223413.S606@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980905131608.A20345@scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 01:16:08PM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.OS2.3.96.980904141823.80C-100000@MRC-Tiger.chipchat.com> <19980905131608.A20345@scientia.demon.co.uk>

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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
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