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From: alexandr@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: time zone wrong
Date: 12 Oct 1996 15:46:38 GMT
Organization: Mos Eisley Candy Store
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Message-ID: <53oegu$715@dewey.udel.edu>
References: <325CD789.9B9@blast.net> <01bbb7f5$ec647e20$23861cce@atlanta.cybercom.net>
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In article <01bbb7f5$ec647e20$23861cce@atlanta.cybercom.net>,
C. Morton <ksmm@cybercom.net> wrote:
:
:
:Pat McPartland <mcp@blast.net> wrote in article <325CD789.9B9@blast.net>...
:> Hello,
:> I am having trouble with my time zone. It's in GMT, so all my mail
:> shows up with 4 hours difference, ex. it's 10:50am and netscape mail
:> shows it's 1:50pm. I've tried tzset. Same problem. Any Ideas?
:>
:
:I had a similar problem that was solved by running /stand/sysinstall and
:choosing the ignore the suggestion that "UTC seems most likely." When I
:told FreeBSD that my system was set to local time, things worked fine.
:
:If you're more ambitious, you can try editing the /etc/time???? file.
Actually, all you need to do is just change /etc/localtime. You can
either link to or copy the appropriate TZ file from /usr/share/tz to
/etc/localtime. That should do it.
--Jerry
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