From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 13 0:55:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.ghis.net (as1f-9.wag.interact.net.au [203.37.48.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33B514D5B for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 00:55:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@blues.ghis.net) Received: (from jim@localhost) by blues.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA60335; Thu, 13 May 1999 17:54:49 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:54:48 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: Opec Kemp Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time Zone Message-ID: <19990513175448.A60260@blues.ghis.net> Reply-To: jim@blues.ghis.net References: <373B0481.72F96F06@wtfrc.com> <19990513074539.MGIC7471167.mta1-rme@wocker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990513074539.MGIC7471167.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [sent to -questions instead of -newbies so Sue doesn't yell ;)] On Thu, 13 May 1999 at 19:43:27 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > On 13 May 99, at 16:57, Opec Kemp wrote: [snip..] > > Is it possible to set the time zone any otherway ie from the > > command line. The problem I;m having is that the DB i'm using > > (MySQL) reports a wrong time. So, from the Doco it said to set the > > timezone variables when I run the DB server. Is there an > > environmental variables that I can set?. In Linux it is TZ but, > > I'm new to FreeBSD and I have tried to do the same but it has no > > effect. It's TZ. Read the date(1) and environ(7) to get the format and more info. -- - Jim Mock - jim@blues.ghis.net - systems administrator - ghis.NET - - work: http://www.ghis.net/ - personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ - - FreeBSD 'zine: http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - - FreeBSD: http://advocacy.freebsd.org/ - jim@advocacy.FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message