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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex-gw!guy From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Setting timezone on BSD386 Message-ID: <19639@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Date: 19 Jan 94 20:11:40 GMT References: <1994Jan18.160650.10175@wkuvx1.wku.edu> <2hi78m$bnu@kult.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: bootme.auspex.com >I suggest: >rm -f /etc/localtime >ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime And *I* suggest zic -l US/Central just as I do when people suggest "doing it by hand" on SunOS 4.x or 5.x; hopefully, BSD386 hasn't removed "zic" from its command set. >You should also have a look at 'timezone' setting in the kernel config. Hopefully, nobody in the kernel uses that time zone information; at least in SunOS 4.x, it's there only for the benefit of pre-SunOS 4.x binaries. (It's not in the kernel *at all* in SunOS 5.x.)