Linux-Hams archive - January 1999: Re: Time Zone Change?

Re: Time Zone Change?

Iain Philipps (ubqt@meteorcomm.com)
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 23:56:59 +0000


At 10:25 04-01-99 +1100, umobuukj.ytjkbzhyl@mx.dy.fi wrote:

>I am looking at a RedHat Linux box, hopefully yours will be the same.
>
>If you look at /etc/localtime you will see it is symlinked to
>../usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT or possibly ../usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific.
>
>The easiest way is just to remove /etc/localtime and symlink it to
>../usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC. After you do this, you will need to reset the
clock on your
>machine of course (use date). If you need to know the exact commands, let
me know.

If you're looking at a RedHat Linux box, why not use /usr/bin/tzselect ?????

Cheers - Iain