From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 8:22:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6713214D19 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id JAA00953; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:57:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19991027095743.63337@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:57:43 -0400 From: Greg Lehey To: Marko Vidberg , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing time zone References: <019801bf2019$8882adc0$eaca7018@cambr1.on.wave.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <019801bf2019$8882adc0$eaca7018@cambr1.on.wave.home.com>; from Marko Vidberg on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:21:02PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 26 October 1999 at 21:21:02 -0400, Marko Vidberg wrote: > I have a simple question... how do I change the timezone on my FreeBSD > system? I have it set to the correct time but not the correct timezone so > all the email that goes thru ends up with timestamps that are off by 4 > hours. > > When i type date, i get: > Tue Oct 26 21:13:00 GMT 1999 > Now, since I'm in Ontario, Canada, shouldn't that be EST? Yes. The time zone files are in /usr/share/zoneinfo. For each time zone, they have picked a single city, which is not always intuitive. In your case, it's New York. To set up the time zone, do: # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message