Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:17:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Setting a non-standard timezone. Message-ID: <20000826121702.H52219@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000826132000.6887A-100000@garfield.bmk.com.au>; from brendan@bmk.com.au on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 01:26:25PM %2B1100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000826132000.6887A-100000@garfield.bmk.com.au>
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On Saturday, 26 August 2000 at 13:26:25 +1100, 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. *and* if the system doesn't know about it, *and* if you don't have daylight savings time... ... then you do: # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+11 /etc/timezone It's almost never necessary to do this, though, and it's more likely that you'll get things wrong. For example, your message now comes from bmkind.lnk.telstra.net, which is connected to Ethernet0.lon12.Melbourne.telstra.net. The time zone in Melbourne is Australia/Melbourne, and the time in Melbourne is currently 10 hours ahead of UTC. It won't change to 11 hours ahead until tomorrow morning. I suppose it's possible that you're on your own island somewhere out in the Tasman and connecting via PPP to Telstra in Melbourne, but I suspect it's more likely that you've jumped the gun on the time zone change. If you use the correct time zone file, this change will be automatic; otherwise you'll have to be sitting there next to the machine at 2 am tomorrow morning in order to do the copy. > 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. This is very much a second-best choice. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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