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  From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
  To  : Darryl Ross <dross@syc.asn.au>
        Dave Lovett <dlovett@gofree.co.uk>
        Linuxsa <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:24:50 +1030

Re: Time Zones

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On Tuesday, 30 January 2001 at  6:42:09 +1030, Darryl Ross wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 06:13:03PM -0000, Dave Lovett wrote:
>> G'day,
>>
>> Could someone tell me how to change the time zone on my RedHat 6.2 machine.
>> I've done it before but completely forgotten how.
>
> 'timetool' is used to set up the date and time I believe. If you
> didn't install that program, then have a look at
> /etc/sysconfig/clock, or if you just want to set it for one user
> instead of system wide, then you want to set the environment variable
> TZ for that user.

More generally, the time zone files are stored in /usr/share/zoneinfo
on all Linux and BSD systems that I've seen.  To set the time zone,
do:

  # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Adelaide /etc/localtime

I don't see a need for a distribution-specific obfuscation of this
simple command.

Greg
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