Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:57:43 -0400 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Marko Vidberg <marko@vidvox.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing time zone Message-ID: <19991027095743.63337@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <019801bf2019$8882adc0$eaca7018@cambr1.on.wave.home.com>; from Marko Vidberg on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:21:02PM -0400 References: <019801bf2019$8882adc0$eaca7018@cambr1.on.wave.home.com>
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On Tuesday, 26 October 1999 at 21:21:02 -0400, Marko Vidberg wrote: > I have a simple question... how do I change the timezone on my FreeBSD > system? I have it set to the correct time but not the correct timezone so > all the email that goes thru ends up with timestamps that are off by 4 > hours. > > When i type date, i get: > Tue Oct 26 21:13:00 GMT 1999 > Now, since I'm in Ontario, Canada, shouldn't that be EST? Yes. The time zone files are in /usr/share/zoneinfo. For each time zone, they have picked a single city, which is not always intuitive. In your case, it's New York. To set up the time zone, do: # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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