"appropriate" system time / timezone settings
Markku Kolkka
markkukolkka at kolumbus.fi
Mon Dec 6 14:00:08 UTC 2004
Trevor Smith kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 7.
joulukuuta 2004 07:39):
> I had thought that the standard way to set up a linux system
> was to set the system time to the UTC (or Greenwich mean time
> or whatever) and set the appropriate TZ variable.
No, the system timezone is set by the /etc/localtime file. It
should be a copy of the appropriate file in
the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. TZ is for temporarily showing
time in some other zone.
> Now, I realized that my system is in AST, which is -0400 from
> UTC or Greenwich (which is it anyway?) so that explained that.
> I set my time clock to be UTC, then selected the Show
> Timezone->America/Halifax setting from the clock applet in my
> KDE launchbar but...
That changes just the time display in the clock applet, nothing
else.
Use system-config-time to set the system timezone.
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list