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Topic: Driving me nuts #1, wrong timezone

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Posted: Feb. 02 2006,22:14

Alright, before you tell me to RTFM, I did read the previous posts I could find in the forum, and I've read the man pages for date and hwclock. I've tried a few things, but to no avail, I still have a timezone mismatch on my laptop.

It is currently 2:00pm PST, but the test msg I just sent myself from Sylpheed says it was sent at 11:00am. The date and time in the dsl panel is correct, and the date and time in Xshell are correct, but the timezone is set to EST. I know how to reset the time using the "date" command, but evidently not how to set the correct timezone.

I have tried removing the /etc/localtime file and replacing it with a symbolic link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific, but the link is gone when I reboot, and doesn't seem to jelp while its in place.

Can somone help?

Thanks.

roberts

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Posted: Feb. 02 2006,23:47

DSL Wiki Timezones

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Posted: Feb. 03 2006,04:22

Thanks Robert,

Adding the "dsl TZ=US/Pacific" to the boot line did the trick.

I didn't think to look in the WIKI, I'll go peruse that in a bit.

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 03 2006,05:23

RTFM

Just kidding :laugh:

Welcome to the revolution!

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Posted: Feb. 03 2006,23:21

<grin> I totally deserve that. Also, I have to update my last posting and say that the time only stayed put until my next reboot. Afterwards my timezone was correct, but I was still getting an offest calculated in my system date. Since my hardware clock was coorect, I ended up adding

Code Sample

hwclock --systohc

to my /opt/bootlocal.sh file. Works like a charm, even though in my eyes it isn't the most elegant solution in the world.

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