Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:25:49 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Philip Radford <phil@chycor.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BST instead of GMT Message-ID: <4434FABD.2080803@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <001401c65960$9d2ecba0$0207a8c0@P800> References: <001401c65960$9d2ecba0$0207a8c0@P800>
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Philip Radford wrote: >Hi all, > >I am looking for a way to get my FreeBSD 5.3 box to show my local time as BST (British Summer Time) as apposed to GMT. > >I have checked and double-checked the timezone and have set this to Europe/London. > >However I think I need to do something with the locale. Hunting around led me to the /etc/login.conf and the concept of classes but can't understand or follow the documentation to get it set up correctly. > > Check that /etc/localtime exists and is the same as the London timezone file: $ diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London should produce no output. Also check that you do not have a TZ variable set as that will affect what date shows you. I've never had to do anything login class related to make this work. There may be other things... --Alex
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