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From: schnee@sst170.ncsl.nist.gov (Rick Schneeman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Updating TIMEZONE in kernel
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Date: 9 Jul 93 15:22:14 GMT
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Rick Schneeman (schnee@sst170.ncsl.nist.gov) wrote:
: On the newly built kernels that I have recently made (NetBSD-0.8) I
: changed (as per the FAQ_03) the timezone paramater in the config file
: to be 4 for EST instead of 8 for PDT. However, this does NOT take effect
: upon successfull reboot of the newly created kernel. Is there something
: that I'm missing here. Thanks alot....
: 
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: Richard D. Schneeman                                      rschneeman@nist.gov
: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
: Computer Systems Lab, Technology Building, MS-B266 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA
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ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime

Thank you POSIX.....

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Richard D. Schneeman                                      rschneeman@nist.gov
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Computer Systems Lab, Technology Building, MS-B266 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA
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