From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 13:28: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206EF1515F for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11LVco-000BdE-00; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:53:46 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11LVcn-000AaG-00; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:53:45 +0100 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:53:44 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Alec Aakesson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, aakesson@isi.edu Subject: Re: UTC Message-ID: <19990830185344.B40625@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alec Aakesson wrote: > I would like to know if there is a way for me to set the date/time to > Universal Coordinated Time [and also the suffex]. I have tried useing > /stand/sysinstall, as well as /usr/sbin/tzsetup, but no luck. I used to > beable to find GMT, but it dose not seem to be available any longer. ben@lithium:~$ locate UTC /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC I think all you need to do is: # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC /etc/localtime You may also need to restart any programs (e.g. daemons) which were started before the change, if you want them to use the new timezone (maybe they do automatically, I'm not too sure). -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message