Re: Setting the timezone? (Fedora / RH9)

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 05:33:14 -0000

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In comp.os.linux.setup Baho Utot <baho-utot@philippines-island.org> suggested:
> On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:49:48 +0000, Michael Heiming wrote:

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>> In comp.os.linux.setup Carlos Moreno <moreno_at_mochima_dot_com@xx.xxx> suggested:
[..]
>>> So, I tried setting and exporting TZ in rc.local; I
>>> tried putting the right values in /etc/sysconfig/clock
>>> (failed; failed)
>>
>> Perhaps you missed some steps, there's only /etc/sysconfig/clock
>> you have to edit.
>>
>> ZONE="filename"
>>
>> on my box ZONE="Europe/Berlin" which you find on the system,
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and copy it to /etc/localtime
>> to make things working.

> linking it with
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
> might be a better solution insteed of copying it.

Why? It's 837 Byte on my box. 

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