Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 00:06:22 +0900 (JST) From: Marty Cawthon <mrc@ChipChat.ne.jp> To: john@drexeltech.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to force GMT/UTC Message-ID: <20000906000622B.mrc@ChipChat.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000905102548.00b62358@mail.johnturner.com> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000905102548.00b62358@mail.johnturner.com>
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From: John Turner <john@drexeltech.com> Subject: How to force GMT/UTC john> If I have servers (all FreeBSD) in many different timezones, how do I force john> all of them to consider their system time to be GMT/UTC? Hello John, I asked the same question two years ago, almost exactly, on this same Mailing List. I recall being advised to do this: Look in "/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc" You will find many small files: GMT, GMT+0, GMT+1, etc First, be cautious # mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.OK Second, copy the file # cp -p /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT /etc/localtime I don't have my notes handy, but I think this is what I do each time I install FreeBSD. The FreeBSD installation allows me to select many timezones, but not GMT. This lack of GMT TZ selection during "Install" strikes me as odd. I don't know about the documentation regarding this, and I don't know why there are "GMT", "GMT0", "GMT+0", "Greenwich", "Universal", "UTC", "UCT", "Zulu" which all seem to signify the same timezone. Marty Cawthon ChipChat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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