From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 19:42: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diskfarm.firehouse.net (rdu25-12-043.nc.rr.com [24.25.12.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D0A37B422 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 19:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from abc@localhost) by diskfarm.firehouse.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA37677; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 02:41:38 GMT (envelope-from abc) Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 02:41:38 +0000 From: Alan Clegg To: Brendan Kosowski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Setting a non-standard timezone. Message-ID: <20000826024138.B37521@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Clegg , Brendan Kosowski , FreeBSD Questions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from brendan@bmk.com.au on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 01:26:25PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unless the network is lying to me again, Brendan Kosowski said: > I know how to do this at the user level ( by setting the TZ variable in > the .profile to a posix compliant format, eg. XYZ-11 ) but I do not know > how to do this at the system default level. Look in /usr/share/zoneinfo, pick the right one and either copy or link it to /etc/localtime Now, if you have a non-standard timezone (one that is not represented in any of the /usr/share/zoneinfo), I can't help... AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message