From: Steef S.G. de Bruijn (debruijn@cs.utwente.nl)
Date: 10/04/93


From: debruijn@cs.utwente.nl (Steef S.G. de Bruijn)
Subject: Re: How set time zone?
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 23:57:33 GMT

Joerg Stenger (stenger@zeus.uni-duisburg.de) wrote:
: From the /usr/lib/zoneinfo/time.doc:
: "...
: 1) set /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime and /usr/lib/zoneinfo/posixrules.
: You should copy the file for your time zone. E.g. if you are in the
: U.S. Eastern time zone, do

: cd /usr/lib/zoneinfo
: cp US/Eastern localtime
: ln localtime posixrules

: ..."

: Hope this helps,
: Joerg Stenger
: PS: Questions like these belong to comp.os.linux.help.
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You also have to change the line in /etc/rc.local containing the
clock command: add the -u option to indicate that your
system clock is in GMT format (and make this statement true:
change your machine time to GMT format)

Good timing!
Steef