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Subject: Re: Setting a non-standard timezone.
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On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Brendan Kosowski wrote:

> How do I set the systems default timezone to a non-standard timezone ?
> 
> Eg. if I live in zone XYZ and we are 11 hours ahead of GMT.
> 
> I know how to do this at the user level ( by setting the TZ variable in
> the .profile to a posix compliant format, eg. XYZ-11 ) but I do not know
> how to do this at the system default level.

# man tzsetup

> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Brendan Kosowski
> 
> -------------------
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