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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!qiclab!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Setting Local CST on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Date: 13 Dec 1994 18:14:51 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3ckoar$d21@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <3bu4bs$9l8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <KSTAILEY.94Dec11192451@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <KSTAILEY.94Dec11192451@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>, Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote: >Make this link: > >lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30 Dec 11 18:34 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern > >But use Central not Eastern. But don't use a link; copy the file. Otherwise, programs started before /usr is mounted (adjkerntz in particular) won't be able to tell what the correct timezone is. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant