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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!News.Simplex.NL!Simplex.NL!rob From: rob@Simplex.NL (Rob Simons) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Setting Central Time in FreeBSD Date: 14 Oct 1994 15:45:22 GMT Organization: Simplex Networking Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <37m935$qg2@News.Simplex.NL> References: <37kfdd$gbh@uc.msc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: simplex.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] John Boggs (jboggs@seq.hamline.edu) wrote: : I'm surprised this isn't in the FAQ, since I can't find it in the : documentation. I want to set my machine so that it has the time in : CST/CDT instead of GMT. This mainly so I can have an xclock on the : screen that isn't 6 hours off. The manual says that I don't have to : recompile the kernel (as I did with NetBSD-0.9), but durned if : I can figure out what I *do* have to do. : Any elucidation is much appreciated. Link the appropriate file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime should help you a great deal. e.g. cd /etc ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/CST6CDT localtime Perhaps you even have posixrules ? If this doesn't work, try setting the machines time with the CMOS setup. Regards, - Rob. -- /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ /* Rob Simons | rob@simplex.nl *\ /* ---------- | ----------- | rob@MacBugs.simplex.nl *\ /* Novell Netware System Operator | UNIX system operator *\ /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\