Re: timezones FAQ
Wayne Topa <wtopa@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> I 'had' the same problem. The only clue I had was to read the manpage
> for tzconfig. It led me to look at /etc/timezone which contained
> 'EDT'. It also led me to see what /etc/localtime was pointing to, wonder
> of wonders, /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT. As /usr/share/zoneinfo also
> contains a 'EST5EDT', I simply changed the link (/etc/localtime) from
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT to /usr/share/zoneinfo/EDT5EST and changed
> /etc/timeone to EDT5EST, and it fixed the time.
Running tzconfig without reading the man page works fine for me. In
the past month I have switched time zone quite a few times, which
included moving into daylight savings time in two of those time
zones. While I read the tzconfig manual, it wasn't necessary.
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