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Date:      Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:22:58 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To:        Jamie Rishaw <jamie@intuition.iagnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: timezone
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970719142114.708A-100000@acp.qiv.com>
In-Reply-To: <199707191820.OAA16843@intuition.iagnet.net>

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Use tzsetup if your machine is on UTC time. Otherwise, I belive you need
to link /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/timezone/* (whatever is appropriate.)

-- Jay

On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Jamie Rishaw wrote:

->This is a really dumb question, but I know it's probably an FAQ.
->
->How do you change the time zone on a machine?  I had a disk die on a server
->last week.. I brought up a new system, and am synching time via NTP.. the
->problem is, it's 5 hours off.. (exactly 5 hours off) ;)  I think the GMT
->offset is hosed..  where can I look to fix this?
->
->Thanks ;)
->
->-jamie
->-- 
->jamie g.k. rishaw  dal/efnet:gavroche          Internet Access Group
->'whois JGR2' for PGP keyID/Fingerprint __      Network Operations/TSD
->DID:216.902.5455 FAX:216.623.3566      \/         800.637.4IAGx5455
->      "The machine's fine. It just doesn't work." -dan@nic.net
->




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