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From: D. Jay Newman <dn5@psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: date is wrong
Date: 4 Oct 1993 17:31:42 GMT
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In article <crt.749753498@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> Rob Shady,
crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu writes:
>Specifically, change the line in your config file that says 8 DST to
>read 4 DST.  This setting is from Greenwich time, 4 being EST. ;) 
>configure, recompile, install, reboot, etc.. Done!

I had already done that, but it was still showing the time in PST.  To
correct the situation, I also had to make a copy of the time file,
Eastern, as /etc/localtime (I only had to make a copy because a symbolic
link didn't seem to work, and /etc was on a different filesystem than
/usr).

This corrected the problem.

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