Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:15:59 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> Cc: cooperdm <cooperdm@optusnet.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timezone question regarding UTC with no timezone Message-ID: <20011029151559.A12295@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20011030091928.C592@jonc.itouch>; from jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:19:28AM %2B1300 References: <3BC15DCD.E9310EE5@optusnet.com.au> <20011030091928.C592@jonc.itouch>
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:19:28AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 06:03:25PM +1000, cooperdm wrote:
> > I would like to configre BSD4.2 so that the machines CMOS clock is set
> > to UTC and does not experience any DST changes, is there a particular
> > time zone setting for this?
> > When I run tzsetup I select yes to "Is this machines Cmos clock set to
> > UTC" but what time zone do I select to not be affected by DST and how
> > would I change it if I have already selected a timezone.
>
> Try the GMT timezone. You can update your machine's by:
>
> # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime
>
> There's quite a few in /usr/share/zoneinfo, pick and choose.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Or else, use this trivial script; I've used this ``gdate''
for about 12 years.... .
#!/bin/sh
TZ=GMT0 export TZ ; exec /bin/date ${1+"$@"}
--
Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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