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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@×××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:15:16
Message-Id: 4F151FB1.1090903@fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone. by Alan Mackenzie
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4 On 17.01.2012 03:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
5 > Hi, everybody.
6 >
7 > I've finally become zic and tired of messages like
8 >
9 > Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual
10 > page 2012 on tty14
11 >
12 > . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just glaze over. I "just" want
13 > my time to be GMT (or UTC or UCT, or whatever it's called these
14 > days). Surely I don't have to go through the palaver described in
15 > the zic manual page.
16 >
17 > Help, please!
18 >
19
20 Should be done with:
21
22 ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
23
24 (Berlin is my guess since you hail from Nuremberg, otherwise look in
25 /usr/share/zoneinfo if something fits better)
26
27
28 Kind regards,
29
30 Hinnerk
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone. Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone. Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>