Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 12:18:57 -0400 From: Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to set the time/date Message-ID: <19970819121857.26551@clifford.inch.com>
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Hi All, For a while, I've been wondering what the deal is with getting the time set properly on our servers, taking into account timezone and whatnot. Here's what I did on a 2.2.2 machine: 1) Set the time in the BIOS. I'm using the local time there. 2) As root, run the command /usr/sbin/tzsetup. It'll ask you whether the BIOS time is local or GMT, etc. This creates the file /etc/localtime. 3) Make sure /etc/localtime is world-readable so that your users and non-root processes (like httpd's) can read it. Mine was created root readable only, probably because of the umask. 4) Reboot. Question: If I use GMT in the BIOS and set the local timezone info to EDT, do I never have to worry about daylight savings time? Omar
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