This one time, at band camp, Michael D. Schleif said: > > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > This one time, at band camp, Dan Jacobson said: > > > V> CST is -0600. This is standard. > > > > > > Well thanks Vince. Anybody have some constructive recommendations? > > > How can I just make my machine call my timezone "+0800"? > > > 1. I don't want to perform open heart surgery on my machine to do > > > this. It must not be anymore deeper than "apt-get install gawk; > > > apt-get remove mawk" > > > 2. will it break anything if my timezone now isn't 3 letters? > > man tzconfig > > This will allow you to set your timezone correctly. > > Which version do you have? Mine has no manpage and I cannot determine > from which DEB it comes . . . Sorry about that - faulty memory on my part. The man page is actually tzselect, which talks some about tzconfig. tzconfig and friends come from libc6: dpkg -S tzconfig libc6: /usr/sbin/tzconfig tzselect is fairly straight forward, IIRC, though. Try it and see. If you have any problems, write back. Steve -- Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.
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