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- From: ado@elsie.nci.nih.gov (Arthur David Olson)
- Subject: Re: How to change the timezone?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.222920.7661@alw.nih.gov>
- Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
- Organization: National Institutes of Health
- References: <1992Jul24.191551.22881@socrates.umd.edu> <1992Jul25.101124.15369@ukw.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 22:29:20 GMT
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- > cd /usr/lib/zoneinfo
- > cp <your timezone file> localtime
-
- It's dangerous to do this; some systems implement "localtime" as a link
- to the file that describes the local time zone ("US/Eastern", for example);
- and if you, for example
- cp US/Pacific localtime
- you end up overwriting both localtime and "US/Eastern" with "US/Pacific".
-
- Doing a
- zic -l <your timezone name>
- avoids the problem.
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