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- From: vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera)
- Subject: Re: NON-FAQ - date: CST instead of GMT?
- Message-ID: <vera.727838687@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Program Analysis and Verification Group, Stanford University
- References: <1993Jan23.060826.16026@wuecl.wustl.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 01:24:47 GMT
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- ask1@cec2.wustl.edu (Andrew Scott Koransky) writes:
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- >This question was asked recently, but was left unanswered/misunderstood:
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- >I am having problems with date returning my time in CST vs GMT. For
- >example, if the correct time is 23:00 CST: I would try typing:
- >date -s "23:00 CST" and then date outputs: Sun Jan 24 05:00:00 GMT 1993, the
- >time correctly specified as GMT, but I can't get date to output "23:00
- >CST". Is there a way to do this, or do I just have to live with seeing
- >either the time in GMT or the local time specified as GMT?
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- I fixed this by creating a link from /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime to
- the appropriate timezone file (in my case
- /usr/lib/zoneinfo/US/Pacific)
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