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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Setting timezone on BSD386
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Date: 19 Jan 94 20:11:40 GMT
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>I suggest:
>rm -f /etc/localtime
>ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime

And *I* suggest

	zic -l US/Central

just as I do when people suggest "doing it by hand" on SunOS 4.x or 5.x;
hopefully, BSD386 hasn't removed "zic" from its command set.

>You should also have a look at 'timezone' setting in the kernel config.

Hopefully, nobody in the kernel uses that time zone information; at
least in SunOS 4.x, it's there only for the benefit of pre-SunOS 4.x
binaries.  (It's not in the kernel *at all* in SunOS 5.x.)