On Wed, 29 May 2002, Greg Morgan wrote:
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> I just fixed my date this weekend. I used just a file out of
> /usr/share/zoneinfo( I had access to a Linux box). Arizona doesn't do
> daylight saving time. So I copied MTS7MDT to /etc/localtime. This
> technique saves some space especially for floppy users. All you have to
> do is then backup etc.lrp.
I think this paragraph has three errors:
a) MST is Mountain Standard Time... MTS is a typo.
b) TZ string should be MST7, with no three-letter acronym after the
number, because that triggers daylight savings time handling in code that
interprets the TZ environment variable. (I am not sure if any
commonly-available LEAF programs use TZ or /etc/timezone rather than
/etc/localtime, so this may only be informational.)
c) /etc/localtime, as indicated below, should be a link to a
tzfile-format file, usually in /usr/share/zoneinfo. I think the file that
was intended in the paragraph above was /etc/timezone.
Eric Wolzak wrote:
> > make /etc/localtime a symbolic link to /usr/share/zoneinfo.
> > now date will no longer show 16:21 UTC but 9:21 whatsyourtimezone.
> > The logging is also in localtime.
> > don't forget to backup root and etc.
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