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From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Setting the Sri Lanka Time Zone
Date: 4 Jun 1997 12:36:16 -0700
Organization: Network Appliance
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Samath Wijesundera  <samath@slt.lk> wrote:
>I am a Sri lankan and am using the FreeBSD 2.2.1 and when I select the
>time zone as LKT it gives 
>
>	GMT+0630
>
>But this should be GMT+0600
>
>Can someone help me on setting my timezone correctly.

If you have Internet FTP access, fetch the latest version of the "Arthur
Olson" time zone data from "elsie.nci.nih.gov", in the file
"pub/tzdata1997f.tar.gz", and run, as "root", "zic" on the "asia" file;
it will update the Sri Lanka time zone file (the setting for which is
"Asia/Colombo") to reflect the change that was made, according to the
comments in the latest "asia" file, at 1996-10-26 00:30.
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