From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 11:27:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA03835 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack.Colorado.EDU (jack.Colorado.EDU [128.138.149.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA03816 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:27:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jack.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id MAA22688; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:27:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <323EED8E.D01@Colorado.EDU> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:27:26 -0600 From: "Mark O'Lear" Organization: University of Colorado X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael McKinnon CC: questions@FreeBSD.org, master@TFS.COM Subject: Re: setting local time References: <199609161810.LAA29192@tfs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael McKinnon wrote: > > Hello, > > Can someone please let me know what I need to enter in /etc/localtime to set the > FreeBSD system to Pacific Daylight Time? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Michael McKinnon Depending on your preference: 1) remove /etc/localtime, then "ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime" or 2) do a "cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles /etc/localtime" I prefer method 1 because then I can see what file I'm using (not that it's hard to figure it out with method 2). -- Mark O'Lear \ e-mail: Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU University of Colorado \ phone: (303) 492-3798 Telecomm. Svcs. (CB 313) \ fax: (303) 492-5105 Boulder, CO 80309 \