From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 27 14: 4:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fdy2.demon.co.uk (fdy2.demon.co.uk [194.222.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F30115605 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 14:04:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk) Received: (from rjs@localhost) by fdy2.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00371; Thu, 27 May 1999 21:56:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rjs) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:56:37 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199905272056.VAA00371@fdy2.demon.co.uk> From: Robert Swindells To: ben@skunk.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Ben Rosengart on Thu, 27 May 1999 15:10:14 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: time zone trouble with 2.2.8 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I am trying to set the time zone to GMT on some 2.2.8 machines. This >is trivial on a 3.x system (cd /usr/share/zoneinfo && tzsetup GMT), but >on 2.x, tzsetup(8) doesn't take a time zone argument. Is there another >interface I can use? Or is it safe to copy a -stable tzsetup(8) over >and use that? Or for that matter a -stable copy of /etc/localtime? >Judging from a diff of the source code to tzsetup, the localtime format >hasn't changed, but I want to make sure, as these are semi-production >systems. ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime Works fine for me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message