Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 13:23:41 -0700 From: Phil Humpherys <humphery@beagle.imall.com> To: jgrosch@sirius.com Cc: grog@lemis.de, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: timezone problem Message-ID: <199702012023.NAA18581@beagle.imall.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 01 Feb 1997 10:50:25 -0800. <199702011850.KAA00348@superior.truenorth.org>
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thanks! On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 10:50:25 -0800 (PST) Josef Grosch writes +-------------------- | > | > | >Greg, | > | >I tried exactly what you suggested below, and it didn't work. | > | > | >On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 13:48:40 +0100 (MET) Greg Lehey writes | >+-------------------- | >| Phil Humpherys writes: | >| > | >| > I installed 2.2-BETA, and during the install, i set my timezone to be | >| > MST. But my system thinks that the system clock is GMT... HOw do i | >| > fix this? | >| | >| I'm guessing you're used to System V, where time zones are an idea in | >| the mind of the environment. In FreeBSD, they're determined by the | >| contents of the file /etc/localtime. To set up your local time zone, | >| do: | >| | >| 1. If "MST" is an abbreviation for "Mountain Standard Time", copy the | >| contents of /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver to /etc/localtime. | >| | >| 2. If "MST" is an abbreviation for "Middle European Summer Time", | >| copy the contents of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin to | >| /etc/localtime. | >| | >| /etc/localtime also takes care of daylight savings time transitions. | >| No work required. | >| | >| Greg | >| | > | | You need to have a touch file, "/etc/wall_cmos_clock". This tells the | system that the CMOS clock is set to local time not Zulu. RTFM adjkerntz(8) | | | Josef | | -- | Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 | jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses -pH -------------- Phil Humpherys Email: ph@imall.com Systems Administrator http://ph.imall.com/ iMALL, Inc. Office: +1.801.377.0899 Pager: +1.801.276.3494 "[Stairway to Heaven] is a nice, pleasant, well-meaning, naive, little song. Very English. It's not the definitive Led Zeppelin song. 'Kashmir' is." Robert Plant - Rolling Stone - 24th. March 1988
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