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- From: spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS: Additional problem & questions.
- Summary: Setting system date to CST
- Keywords: date,CST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.072710.21415@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 07:27:10 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.211630.233@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago, SSPPCC
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- In article <1993Jan20.211630.233@wuecl.wustl.edu> ask1@cec2.wustl.edu (Andrew Scott Koransky) writes:
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- >How do I set the date so that I see CST rather than GMT. I only can
- >set it to the correct GMT, but I can't get it to output the local time.
- >
- In /etc/login.defs, include the line
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- ENV_TZ TZ=CST6CDT
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- Or, prepare a file, /etc/tzname, consisting entirely of the single line
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- CST6CDT
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- I haven't tested the second method. But the first works for me.
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- Bob Osterlund
- berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
- SSPPCC--University of Chicago
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