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From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Setting Central Time in FreeBSD
Date: 14 Oct 1994 21:45:43 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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In article <37kfdd$gbh@uc.msc.edu>, John Boggs <jboggs@seq.hamline.edu> wrote:
>
>I'm surprised this isn't in the FAQ, since I can't find it in the
>documentation.  I want to set my machine so that it has the time in
>CST/CDT instead of GMT.

You don't specify which version of FreeBSD you are using.  For
version 1.0:

	rm -f /etc/localtime
	cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime

For versions 1.1 and 1.1.5[.1]:

	rm -f /etc/localtime
	cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime


For version 2.0 (when it comes out):

	tzsetup

-GAWollman

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