time zone

["j j" <jj6419@gmail.com>]

Hello 

The time on my desktop is set to UTC.  I'll like to read it EST.  Is there something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ?  I remember older debian  used to have base-config; what is it replaced with in the current debian 4(64 studio).  I know libc6 is involve, but I am not sure how to tell it to set my local timezone as EST.  I installed datetimeconf, but it give the error: 

~$ sudo datetimeconf
Location map: /usr/share/datetimeconf/pixmaps/map480.png
Location green cross: /usr/share/datetimeconf/pixmaps/cross-green.png
Location red cross: /usr/share/datetimeconf/pixmaps/cross-
red.png
Error: Can't read zone info, exitting

Also, time-admin consistently crashes.  here is my latest crash report:

System: Linux 2.6.21-1-multimedia-486 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Jun 22 19:13:23 UTC 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 70101000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Clearlooks
Icon Theme: gnome

Memory status: size: 19791872 vsize: 19791872 resident: 9261056 share: 7151616 rss: 9261056 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1182712986 rtime: 25 utime: 20 stime: 5 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/time-admin'

(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1225271088 (LWP 4323)]
0xb7419aee in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#0  0xb7419aee in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1  0xb7dae865 in libgnomeui_segv_handle (signum=6) at gnome-ui-init.c:872
#2  <signal handler called>
#3  0xb71e3d86 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0xb71e55b1 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5  0xb7366179 in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6  0xb73661b9 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7  0x080514f7 in e_tz_map_new ()
#8  0x0804ecf8 in init_timezone ()
#9  0x0804fe4d in gst_time_tool_new ()
#10 0xb73d361b in g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0xb73d4239 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-
2.0.so.0
#12 0xb73d4340 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#13 0x0804efb6 in gst_time_tool_new ()
#14 0x080521af in main ()

Thread 1 (Thread -1225271088 (LWP 4323)):
#0  0xb7419aee in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#1  0xb7dae865 in libgnomeui_segv_handle (signum=6) at gnome-ui-init.c:872
    estatus = -1220454000
    sa = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0, sa_sigaction = 0}, 
  sa_mask = {__val = {3074419100, 135892632, 3074513296, 3074507329, 
      3214172168, 3074513312, 3214172840, 3074327332, 4323, 134873440, 2, 
      3074507329, 3074512316, 1, 3214172232, 1, 135892632, 3074418280, 
      3074513296, 3074181584, 3214172232, 134901416, 3214172904, 3074293318, 
      3074419100, 135892632, 3074513296, 3074181584, 3214172264, 134901416, 
      3214172936, 3074293318}}, sa_flags = -1220548196, 
  sa_restorer = 0x8198e48}
    pid = 0
    in_segv = 1
#2  <signal handler called>
No symbol table info available.
#3  0xb71e3d86 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#4  0xb71e55b1 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#5  0xb7366179 in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-
2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#6  0xb73661b9 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#7  0x080514f7 in e_tz_map_new ()
No symbol table info available.
#8  0x0804ecf8 in init_timezone ()
No symbol table info available.
#9  0x0804fe4d in gst_time_tool_new ()
No symbol table info available.
#10 0xb73d361b in g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#11 0xb73d4239 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#12 0xb73d4340 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#13 0x0804efb6 in gst_time_tool_new ()
No symbol table info available.
#14 0x080521af in main ()
No symbol table info available.
#0  0xb7419aee in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0


How do I proceed?

Thanks
jj