Date: 19 Aug 2002 12:37:56 -0600 From: John-David Childs <nospamposter@nterprise.net> To: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to determine the time zone a system has ? Message-ID: <1029782279.3077.87.camel@lohr.digitalglobe.com> In-Reply-To: <20020818162244.C58763-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> References: <20020818162244.C58763-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 17:23, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > No, I'm saying, what if it is not my system and I dont want to touch > anything, and I want to tell, just by lookig at /etc/localtime what TZ the > system is currently in Uh, the date command will tell you the default TIMEZONE, *unless* you have an environment variable (TZ) overriding it: taliacyn:/localhost/home/jchilds>date Mon Aug 19 18:36:34 GMT 2002 taliacyn:/localhost/home/jchilds>setenv TZ America/Denver taliacyn:/localhost/home/jchilds>date Mon Aug 19 12:37:26 MDT 2002 ... i thought that by comparing /etc/localtime with > the zone files you could tell - and I have done that before, I just lost > the slick line of shell code that md5'd localtime and compares it to all > timezones and output the file it matched... > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:17:04AM -0700, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I loosely understand that the correct mechanism to determine the time zone > > > that a freebsd system has is to md5 a certain file and then compare that > > > md5 with the time zone files themselves and then look at the name of the > > > file that matches....i think... > > > > Um. No. You run tzsetup(8). That helps you choose among the files in > > /usr/share/zoneinfo, and copies it to /etc/localtime. > > -- > > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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