From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 11:32:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oak.drexeltech.com (oak.drexeltech.com [64.39.31.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0602F37B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elmo.johnturner.com (adsl-static-1-C7B2BC85.detroit.mi.ameritech.net [199.178.188.133]) by oak.drexeltech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA75990; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 13:43:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from john@johnturner.com) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000905143042.00b19338@mail.johnturner.com> X-Sender: jturner@mail.johnturner.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 14:31:59 -0400 To: Marty Cawthon , john@drexeltech.com From: John Turner Subject: Re: How to force GMT/UTC Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000906000622B.mrc@ChipChat.ne.jp> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000905102548.00b62358@mail.johnturner.com> <4.3.2.7.0.20000905102548.00b62358@mail.johnturner.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:06 AM 9/6/2000 +0900, Marty Cawthon wrote: > Look in "/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc" >You will find many small files: GMT, GMT+0, GMT+1, etc > > First, be cautious > # mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.OK > > Second, copy the file > # cp -p /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT /etc/localtime worked like a charm, thank you very much!!! Thanks also to the others who replied. > I don't have my notes handy, but I think this is what I do each time >I install FreeBSD. The FreeBSD installation allows me to select many >timezones, >but not GMT. This lack of GMT TZ selection during "Install" strikes me as >odd. I agree. - John Turner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message