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From: galen@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Douglas Wade Needham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How is the time zone set in 4.2 BSD?
Message-ID: <625@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 14:30:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: pdp.625
Posted: Tue Jun  9 14:30:51 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jun-87 04:23:55 EDT
References: <770@thumper.UUCP>
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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Summary: TIMEZONE for BSD is done in your /sys/conf/* file.

In article <770@thumper.UUCP>, tr@thumper.UUCP writes:
> What is the command to set the default time zone, as printed out by
> date and other programs?  I can't find anything in section 8 or the
> /etc/directory.  The system insists the zone is Pacific, even though
> it is situated on the east coast.

The timezone is set in the system configuration files as a global parameter.
If you read in 'Building Systems with Config', found in volume 2c of your 
UNIX Programmer's Manual, there is a field labled 'timezone'.  The fact
that your system is using Pacific time indicates that your kernal was either
never changed from a generic system, or the timezone was overlooked.  You 
will need to change the value from 8 (Pacific) to 5, 6, or 7 (Eastern, 
Central, or Mountain) or something else matching your particular zone.
The dst indicates that you use daylight savings time, and a number following
it (optional) indicates when the switch occurs.

After you have changed this field, you will need to run 'config' and 
recompile your kernal.  Check the manual for the details.

Hope this helps.  I myself am in the process of reconfiguring our system.
Hopefully, in a week or so we will have our 4.3 tapes, and I will be 
installing them.  Anyone at Berkley know where the tapes for Ohio University
Electrical and Computer Engineering are???  Or the email address for 
someone who might???

> -- 
> Tom Reingold

- douglas wade needham (root@ouvax.ece.OHIOU.EDU)

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