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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:13:53AM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: |
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> On 17.01.2012 03:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hi, everybody. |
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> > I've finally become zic and tired of messages like |
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> > Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual |
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> > page 2012 on tty14 |
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> > . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just glaze over. I "just" want |
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> > my time to be GMT (or UTC or UCT, or whatever it's called these |
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> > days). Surely I don't have to go through the palaver described in |
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> > the zic manual page. |
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> > Help, please! |
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> Should be done with: |
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> ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime |
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Thanks, that did it. |
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> (Berlin is my guess since you hail from Nuremberg, otherwise look in |
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> /usr/share/zoneinfo if something fits better) |
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Actually I set it to UTC. Even though I live in De, I leave my watch set |
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to UTC and make the required conversion every time I look at it. It's |
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not hard, begin only one or two hours different, depending on the season. |
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> Kind regards, |
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> Hinnerk |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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