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From: gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Setting timezone?
Message-ID: <12670023@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 89 02:20:38 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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/ comp.sys.next / fad@think.COM (Franklin A Davis) / Apr 20, 1989 /

>I'm trying to wean my machine away from Pacific time.  I found the
>directory /etc/zoneinfo, and I tried copying EST5EDT over localtime.
>The 'date' command now reports EDT, but to set the clock I must give a
>date 3 hours early... 

Set the date with the -u option (Greenwich time).  (It helps if you have
another computer on which you can do a `date -u` and spare yourself from
doing all those nasty subtractions :-)

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore