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From: rafi@cs.openu.ac.il (Rafi Sadowsky)
Subject: Re: Setting timezone on BSD386
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 17:27:25 GMT
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Richard Perini (rpp@mippet.ci.com.au) wrote:
: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

: >>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.

: Unfortunately they have.
it's in the source tree -they just forgot to compile/install it

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