Trevor Smith kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 7. joulukuuta 2004 07:39): > I had thought that the standard way to set up a linux system > was to set the system time to the UTC (or Greenwich mean time > or whatever) and set the appropriate TZ variable. No, the system timezone is set by the /etc/localtime file. It should be a copy of the appropriate file in the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. TZ is for temporarily showing time in some other zone. > Now, I realized that my system is in AST, which is -0400 from > UTC or Greenwich (which is it anyway?) so that explained that. > I set my time clock to be UTC, then selected the Show > Timezone->America/Halifax setting from the clock applet in my > KDE launchbar but... That changes just the time display in the clock applet, nothing else. Use system-config-time to set the system timezone.
