Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 16:23:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how to determine the time zone a system has ? Message-ID: <20020818162244.C58763-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> In-Reply-To: <20020818195412.GA1426@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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No, I'm saying, what if it is not my system and I dont want to touch anything, and I want to tell, just by lookig at /etc/localtime what TZ the system is currently in ... i thought that by comparing /etc/localtime with the zone files you could tell - and I have done that before, I just lost the slick line of shell code that md5'd localtime and compares it to all timezones and output the file it matched... On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 07:17:04AM -0700, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I loosely understand that the correct mechanism to determine the time zone > > that a freebsd system has is to md5 a certain file and then compare that > > md5 with the time zone files themselves and then look at the name of the > > file that matches....i think... > > Um. No. You run tzsetup(8). That helps you choose among the files in > /usr/share/zoneinfo, and copies it to /etc/localtime. > -- > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the remaining 3%? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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