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From: rpp@mippet.ci.com.au (Richard Perini)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Setting timezone on BSD386
Date: 20 Jan 1994 20:41:10 +1100
Organization: Corinthian Engineering P/L, Sydney, Australia.
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guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

>>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.

Unfortunately they have.

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