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From: gebhart@kult.regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Ralf Gebhart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Setting timezone on BSD386
Date: 19 Jan 1994 03:52:06 +0100
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HAYDEDR@WKUVX1.BITNET (Ross Hayden) writes:

>Hello all!

>Call me stupid, but I can't figure out how to change my timezone
>from EST to CST on my bsd386 machine.  Any ideas?

I suggest:
rm -f /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime

That should solve your problem at least for the user space.
You should also have a look at 'timezone' setting in the kernel config.


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Ralf Gebhart
IRC: Snake
Mail: Ralf.Gebhart@E-Technik.TU-Muenchen.de / Snake@isar.muc.de