From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 13: 4:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.sc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551AA37B402 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:04:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by Mail6.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:04:39 -0500 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by sc.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f09L5LR11747; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:05:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmaddox) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 16:05:21 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: lists Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A simple timezone question! Message-ID: <20010109160521.A11710@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Mail-Followup-To: lists , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200101091606.AA126812196@mail.joemagee.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101091606.AA126812196@mail.joemagee.com>; from lists@joemagee.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:06:27PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just use 'tzsetup' :) On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:06:27PM -0500, lists wrote: > Wow! im confused. This is probably a simple on so please email me off the list, if you care to help my sad self ; > > > I've checked out the faq's about /etc/localtime being linked to /usr/share/...... something or other. When I vi-ed these files I got tons of garbage. > > I checked all of the rc stuff as well as some other files. > > I was able to do a: TZ=EST date but that only works for that terminal session. > > So where do I set the timezone variable? I know its somewhere I'm probably over looking. thanks! > > > > 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