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From: wpaul@panix.com (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Rookie Date Question
Date: 28 Jun 1994 21:13:44 -0400
Organization: The M00se Illuminati (bl00p!)
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se,
Klevemann (klevemmc@miner.usbm.gov) had the courage to say:
: Okay, I give... How do you get FreeBSD to recognize localtime and quit
: saying "See zic(8) or link /etc/localtime directly" ?
: Thanks From A FreeBSD Rookie...
: --
: =============================================================================
: Matt Klevemann, Branch Of Information Services (ADP), U.S. Bureau Of Mines
Check out /usr/share/zoneinfo. You'll find all of the timezone definition
files there. Locate the one that's correct for your region (as an example,
I'm in New York City, so I used EST5EDT) then create a symbolic link
called /etc/localtime that points to this entry. If you want to be
barbaric about it, you can just copy the right file directly to
/etc/localtime:
# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
or
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
Oh, one other thing: if your CMOS clock is set to local wall clock
time (which is what MS-DOS expects it to be), then you should create
a dummy file called /etc/wall_cmos_clock too:
# touch /etc/wall_cmos_clock
If FreeBSD is the only operating system in the machine, then you can
forgo this step and just readjust your CMOS clock so that FreeBSD
gives you the correct local time. But if you must keep the CMOS
clock set to local time to make MS-DOS (or some other OS) happy, then
create the file and FreeBSD's clock will be properly
busted^H^H^H^H^H^Hadjusted when you boot.
Et voila: zee clock, she is correct.
-Bill
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