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- From: glo@globox.Eng.Sun.COM (Gary Owens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: How to change the timezone?
- Date: 29 Jul 1992 02:57:55 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- Message-ID: <l7c29jINNcrk@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Jul24.191551.22881@socrates.umd.edu> <1992Jul25.101124.15369@ukw.uucp>
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- Summary: carefully!
-
- In article <1992Jul25.101124.15369@ukw.uucp> lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
- >cd /usr/lib/zoneinfo
- >cp <your timezone file> localtime
-
- Yikes! Please remove localtime first!
- Install/sysidtool hard links localtime to a timezone file
- (which is typically a hard link to other timezone files).
-
- % ls -li localtime
- 41378 -rw-r--r-- 4 root 746 Oct 11 1990 localtime
- % find . -inum 41378 -print
- ./US/Pacific
- ./PST8PDT
- ./localtime
- ./localtime-
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