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Re: Clock question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hart)
Mon Oct 28 19:52:29 1996
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:22:18 +1100 (EST)
From: Robert Hart <hartr@interweft,com.au>
Reply-To: Robert Hart <iweft@ipax.com.au>
To: Paul Waldo <pww@ssds.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <3274BD24.4123AE90@ssds.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Paul Waldo wrote:
> When installing RH 4.0, I thought I'd be "cosmopolitan" and use UTC for
> my clock rather than local time. This does not work very well, as
> everything shows the wrong time, except /sbin/clock. How can I get all
> of the rest of the system to realize I am using UTC (like "date"), or
> switch back to local time? Thanks!
Set up /etc/localtime to be a link to the correct timezone file. In my
case (Melbourne, Australia) I have
/etc/localtime -> /usr/lib/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne
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