time change

Nathan Meyers nmeyers at javalinux.net
Thu Sep 19 22:10:47 EDT 2002


On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:14:56PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> usually the way to solve this problem is to keep the system
> clock in "local" time and set linux to know that the system is
> in local, not utc, time.

And the way you do that, at least on Mandrake, is to copy the
relevant file from /usr/share/zoneinfo/* to /etc/localtime.
For example, copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT to /etc/localtime
for our time zone.

Nathan



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