From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 19 12:30:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08302 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 12:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tok.qiv.com ([204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08284 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 12:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id OAA08657; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:30:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00710; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:22:58 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:22:58 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: Jamie Rishaw cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timezone In-Reply-To: <199707191820.OAA16843@intuition.iagnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ->