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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moving machines and changing time zones
Date: 8 Mar 1996 22:39:49 GMT
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wayne@aarnet.edu.au (Wayne Farmer) writes:
> What is the best way to change time zones for a pre-configured machine
> that is physically moving time zones ?

/etc/localtime is usually a symlink to the timezone description file.
Remove and relink it to your new zone information.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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