Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:17:09 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Philip Radford <phil@chycor.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: BST instead of GMT Message-ID: <20060410014709.GO63030@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <003001c65a2e$d9cf8850$0207a8c0@P800> References: <001401c65960$9d2ecba0$0207a8c0@P800> <20060406235201.GA19439@wantadilla.lemis.com> <003001c65a2e$d9cf8850$0207a8c0@P800>
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--0u4QAjBqqw4+MLTw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 7 April 2006 at 11:34:29 +0100, Philip Radford wrote: > On Friday, April 07, 2006 12:52 AM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote: >> [text omitted] > > Thanks for your comments. Both /etc/localtime and > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London are the same. > > I have since created /etc/localtime as a symbolic link to > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London but still only shows GMT when I enter > date. Yes, that won't make any difference. > The only thing I haven't mentioned to date is that I use bash as my > shell if that is an issue. No, I use bash too. > Also there was a lot of talk while researching on google about a TZ > environment variable. Should I have this set as I do not have one at > the moment. You shouldn't set one. But what happens with these commands? $ date $ TZ=Europe/London date It could be that your clock is just set incorrectly. 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 Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --0u4QAjBqqw4+MLTw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEObkdIubykFB6QiMRAv2wAJ0TMpaurQK0Q7W1a70U/6eKXDtblwCfda1o ObxRo65eNTkzpb83ivid5KE= =R8ZY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0u4QAjBqqw4+MLTw--
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