Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:59:10 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@mux.org.uk> To: Will Saxon <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get out of Africa? Message-ID: <401698DE.5090807@mux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8DB371D@bragi.housing.ufl.edu> References: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8DB371D@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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Will Saxon wrote: >>Dear FreeBSD, >> >> During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. >> >> I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find >>out to reset my time zone. >> >> Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 from the CD. > > > I think that you can copy the file that matches your timezone from /usr/share/zoneinfo/ over top of /etc/localtime. > > For me it is EST5EDT and I usually link it (ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime) but that might not be the recommended way. I believe that using tzsetup is the recommened way. Andrew
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