Truls,
Here is a short howto that I put together last year if you want to
adjust your timezone from the command line:
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These are instruction for changing the timezone of a linux computer
from the command line. You must have root privileges.
In order to get the particular zone you wish you must locate and
record the path of the file within the directory /usr/share/zoneinfo/
that has the filename which best describes the desired timezone. Some
common examples which you may use are:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Bahrain
/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
Next Vi the file /etc/sysconfig/clock. It will look something like this:
ZONE="America/New_York"
UTC=true
ARC=false
Set the ZONE variable to the file path you selected, leaving off the
path root of “/usr/share/zoneinfo/”. Leave UTC set to true, it should
only be set to false on dual boot machines with Windows installed. The
ARC option is relevant to Alpha machines only, should be set to false
here. It indicates the ARC console's 42-year time offset is in
effect. If not set to true, the normal Unix epoch is assumed. Save and
exit out of Vi.
Now you need to link the file /etc/localtime to the selected zoneinfo
file:
[root@ctpview]# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
/etc/localtime
The last step is to reboot the server:
[root@ctpview]# shutdown -r now
You can check the new settings with:
[root@ctpview]# date
Fri Apr 8 09:50:49 EDT 2005
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--Bob
Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:
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Hi,
can someone please assist me in setting the correct time zone.
Regards,
Truls
