Dear Gurus,
My problem: after having started xntpd, my timezone shifted from MET to WET.
My question was: how can I set the timezone?
Thanks to Alessandro Brunengo, Kristin (Kris) Larsen and John Seel who gave
me the solution. I did what John said (included below), now I am back to
MET and "date" gives the correct time.
This does not explain why ntpsetup modified the time zone. When the script
lauches xntpd, it says : "Setting kernel timezone variable". Does this mean
that ntpsetup chooses WET by default, ignoring the previous setting?
------------ John Seel's answer -------------
In /etc/zoneinfo there is a file called localtime that is symbolically
linked to a file in /etc/zoneinfo/<region>/<timezone>
ie: localtime --> ./US/Eastern
To change:
# cd /etc/zoneinfo
#ls -l localtime
should be: localtime -->./US/Eastern (or whatever the present timezone is)
#rm localtime
#ln -s /etc/zoneinfo/US/Central localtime
#ls -l localtime
should now be: localtime -->./US/Central (or whatever timezone it was
changed to)
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Cheers,
Jean-Loup
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Received on Mon Sep 22 1997 - 16:40:44 NZST