[plug] Timezones

[chris.griffin at swiftdsl.com.au]

Mmmm, one day I will remember to tell folk what system I am talking about,
sorry.
It is a RedHat 9.0 box and tzconfig does not seem to work.
I tried the redhat-config-time and got the expected message:
"redhat-config-date requires a currently running X server"
Looks like I will need an X server on my Desktop as well as the X
forwarding? Bother!
I did the symlink, how can I query the system to see if is now correst?


> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:13:52AM +1100, chris.griffin at swiftdsl.com.au
> wrote:
>> I probably should know this one but,
>> I normally select the correct timezone during install, so I have not run
>> into this.
>> A system that someone else installed "seems" to be in the wrong
>> timezone.
>> I have checked everywhere I can think, all to no avail. It is further
>> complicated by only having remote access to the box (cannot run X and
>> use
>> the gui tools, lazy, I know).
>> Could someone please point me in the right direction to check/set the
>> timezone correctly?
>
> On debian, run tzconfig.  Redhat etc, I'm not sure (redhat-config-time
> seems to require a display, but you could use X forwarding in an ssh
> session, see ssh -X).
>
> On most systems the timezone is a symlink
>
>   /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Perth
>
> So you could just adjust this symlink.
>
>
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