http://wiki.johnfreier.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Time_zonesTime zones - Revision history2026-05-20T13:42:16ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.24.1http://wiki.johnfreier.com/index.php?title=Time_zones&diff=453&oldid=prevJfreier: /2011-12-12T22:29:23Z<p>/</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The time zones are set by creating a symbolic link to a timezone. So the file /etc/localtime should point to /usr/share/zoneinfo/.<br />
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To create the link,<br />
>ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/your/zone /etc/localtime<br />
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* Note that {localtime} is a file, had a problem once because I set it to North Dakota, which was a folder and not a file, so all the timezone info in the folder wasn't being set, and defaulted the time to UTC which is the default hardware system time.<br />
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* Note; if the localtime is not setup correctly it will default the timezone to UTC<br />
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* Also you can check /etc/sysconfig/clock - but no idea what it really does???</div>Jfreier