Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:03:32 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@feephi.phofarm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: TZ setting? Message-ID: <9511021703.AA03185@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199511020523.AAA09430@feephi.phofarm.com> References: <199511020523.AAA09430@feephi.phofarm.com>
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<<On Thu, 2 Nov 1995 00:23:10 -0500, "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@feephi.phofarm.com> said: > Here is something I'm curious about. My 950928-SNAP system doesn't seem > to have a TZ setting by default. Is this by design? Being used to SysV, > I created a /etc/TIMEZONE file with: TZ=EST5EDT;export TZ in it. And put > . /etc/TIMEZONE in /etc/profile and /etc/rc. > Is there something I have missed about TZ under FreeBSD? Yes. FreeBSD isn't System V. Use the tzsetup command. If you don't like pseudo-graphical interfaces, find the file in /usr/share/zoneinfo that describes your timezone (probably America/New_York) and copy it to /etc/localtime. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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