Hi,
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Michael Perry wrote:
> I tend to agree hence the comment. I decided to take a look at things
> so reset the bios clock to GMT. I then went into rc.config and used
> the gmt switch and defined the timezone as PST8PDT. Upon rebooting,
> my system has the correct time. I am somewhat unsure what this will
> mean for me down the road. But it seems okay. So another timezoneish
> question comes to mind. Lets say you have a laptop and manage to
> travel from San Francisco/Oakland to Chicago to see some well known
> tradeshow out there (comdex comes to mind :)). The laptop is running
> suse 6 also. So I am crossing a few timezones to get to Chicago.
> What is the elegant way to deal with this on the laptop. I would
> think resetting the bios to gmt and then managing the timezone
> variable would be easy. But this requires a reboot or so the timezone
> thingee says. What do others do that travel? Just curious here. Do
> others not deal with timezone variations when they travel with a
> suseified laptop?
Hmm, Germany only has one timezone :)
SuSEconfig creates a symbolic link /etc/localtime, which points to the
selected timezone defined in /etc/rc.config. If you change this link to
another timezone, "date" automatically displays the new time. There's no
need to reboot.
Bye,
LenZ
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