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Re: /etc/localtime and glibc 2.1



Ignore this. I forgot about tzconfig. Cheers.


On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Colin Telmer wrote:

> I am running potato and have glibc 2.1 installed and date reports GMT time
> rather than EST. I realize that the timezone package was replaced by glibc
> 2.1 but I can't figure out how to tell it to use EST rather than GMT. The
> date command produces
> 
> telmer:~$ date
> Wed Mar 17 23:44:56 /etc/localtime 1999
> 
> So I thought I could simply create /etc/localtime with the single line
> reading "EST" but that didn't do anything. Any ideas?
> 
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> Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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> <http://www.telmer.com>
> 
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