[plug] Timezone Problem

[Cameron Patrick]

Tim White wrote:

> As some of you have picked up, my TZ is set to -0400. I have used 
> tzconfig, tzselect, and linuxconf to change without it working.
> I am using debian testing.
> What file can I edit (in /etc?) to fix this?

/etc/localtime should be a symlink to the appropriate time zone. e.g.:

$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 35 2004-07-15 18:25 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth

I suspect you'll also need to set your clock correctly after changing
your time zone.

Cameron.