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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Changing Timezones in SunOS 4.0
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Date: 12 Jan 89 23:29:10 GMT
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elsie!ado@ncifcrf.gov (Arthur David Olson) writes:
> Using the commands
> 	zic -l whatever-the-new-time-zone-name-is
> 	tzsetup
> should do the trick.

Unfortunately not on a Sun386i. Because of the read only /usr filesystem.
(Why did they do this??? I'm more and more tempted to turn this off, every
time I run into something like this.)

On non-386i:

	# cd /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo
	# rm localtime
	# ln -s whatever-the-new-time-zone-name-is localtime
	# tzsetup

On 386i:

	# cd /etc
	# rm localtime
	# ln -s /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/whatever... localtime
	# tzsetup

Sun left a link at /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/localtime pointing to
/etc/localtime to fool most of the programs. It doesn't fool zic.

jim

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