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Re: Clock question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (B. Shilliday)
Tue Oct 29 11:04:16 1996
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:05:57 +0000
From: "B. Shilliday" <redhat@nibelung.demon.co.uk>
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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!
Change /etc/sysconfig/clock to say
CLOCKMODE="local"
and make /etc/localtime a symbolic link to the appropriate file in
/usr/lib/zoneinfo. Eg, for me it would be:
ln -s ../usr/lib/zoneinfo/GB localtime
Barry
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