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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:59:10 +0000
From:      Andrew Boothman <andrew@mux.org.uk>
To:        Will Saxon <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to get out of Africa?
Message-ID:  <401698DE.5090807@mux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8DB371D@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
References:  <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8DB371D@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>

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Will Saxon wrote:

>>Dear FreeBSD,
>>
>>   During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone.
>>
>>   I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find
>>out to reset my time zone.
>>
>>   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. 
> 
> 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. 

I believe that using tzsetup is the recommened way.

Andrew



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