Re: Scripted method to change TZ from UTC to a specific timezone?
James Wu <JWu@eyereturn.com> wrote:
> When I run the cmd "date", I get UTC time on a fresh boot of an imaged
> machine. I'd like to find a way to set the time to "America/New_York"
> for automatically via script. A reboot is ok if absolutely needed but
> not preferred.
mv -f /etc/timezone /etc/timezone.old
echo America/New_York >/etc/timezone
> I've tried the following methods without success:
> "cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/timezone"
If you look at the original contents of /etc/timezone before you overwrite
it, you'll see it's a timezone name not a zone file. (At least, on my
Debian box it is so.)
> + changing
> "UTC=yes to UTC=no" in /etc/default/rcS
Don't do that!
> I even tried rebooting afterwards
In the case of changing the system default timezone this is probably
not such a bad idea.
Chris
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