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Date:      Sat, 26 Aug 2000 02:41:38 +0000
From:      Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com>
To:        Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Setting a non-standard timezone.
Message-ID:  <20000826024138.B37521@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000826132000.6887A-100000@garfield.bmk.com.au>; from brendan@bmk.com.au on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 01:26:25PM %2B1100
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000826132000.6887A-100000@garfield.bmk.com.au>

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Unless the network is lying to me again, Brendan Kosowski said: 

> I know how to do this at the user level ( by setting the TZ variable in
> the .profile to a posix compliant format, eg. XYZ-11 ) but I do not know
> how to do this at the system default level.

Look in /usr/share/zoneinfo, pick the right one and either copy or link
it to /etc/localtime

Now, if you have a non-standard timezone (one that is not represented in
any of the /usr/share/zoneinfo), I can't help...  

AlanC


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