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Thread-Topic: How to get out of Africa?
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From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>
To: "Scott Hiemstra" <scott@hiemstra.us>,
	"Wayne M Barnes" <wayne@etaq.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: RE: How to get out of Africa?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of=20
> Wayne M Barnes
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:25 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: How to get out of Africa?
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> Dear FreeBSD,
>=20
>    During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone.
>=20
>    I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find
> out to reset my time zone.
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>    Does anybody else know?  I installed 5.1 from the CD.

I think that you can copy the file that matches your timezone from =
/usr/share/zoneinfo/ over top of /etc/localtime.=20

For me it is EST5EDT and I usually link it (ln -s =
/usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime) but that might not be the =
recommended way.=20

-Will