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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Changing the TimeZone on FreeBSD 2.1.0??? Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:47:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <54dhiu$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <326869ca.41261654@news.synapse.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E In-Reply-To: <326869ca.41261654@news.synapse.net> To: yves@streamwave.com yves@streamwave.com (Yves Dagenais) wrote: > I've been trying to change the darn time zone on a system to > EST instead of the default GMT. I've used the utility TZSETUP and > everything goes well... However, after a reboot, I type 'date', I > still get GMT??? So then I tried doing it manually by copying the > appropriate zoneinfo file over my localtime file but still no luck??? You probably need to tell the system that your CMOS is setup to local time (as opposed to run at UTC). Do this with: touch /etc/wall_cmos_clock (RTFM adjkerntz(8) for detailed information) > Is there something I'm not doing right? Please email me at: > yves@streamwave.com [Cc sent by mail. Please _don't_ drop me a Cc though if you are posting here.] -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)