On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 09:14:38AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > You asked after your /system/ clock. I don't think I can tell whether > it's set to UTC or Local Time, but only that it is correct, whichever > it it on. Likewise the hardware RTC. The third line of /etc/adjtime > says what the RTC is on; /etc/timezone says what the system is on; > $ date says what your user is on.
/etc/timezone is only used by some legacy programs. All the current ones should be using /etc/localtime instead, which is a symlink to a binary zoneinfo file, rather than a text file containing a timezone name. I wonder if Keith's confusion is simply due to my MUA using "AM" and "PM" in its attribution line, and Keith not seeing the "PM". Maybe I should look into configuring that differently.
