From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 09:04:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA07252 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 09:04:05 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA07246 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 09:04:00 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA03185; Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:03:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:03:32 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9511021703.AA03185@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Danny J. Zerkel" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: TZ setting? In-Reply-To: <199511020523.AAA09430@feephi.phofarm.com> References: <199511020523.AAA09430@feephi.phofarm.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < 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