[TriLUG] Local Time Zone won't get off UTC

[Brian Henning]

Hmm..  Sounded promising, but:
% tzconfig
Your current time zone is set to America/New_York.
Do you want to change that? [n]: n
Your time zone will not be changed.
%

So perhaps the problem lies somewhere else.  All I know is that my IM 
timestamps and the timestamps on my e-mail are in UTC (for example, Mr. 
Porter's mail is tagged 6:26PM).

Next suggestion?  Should I just try restarting X?  I always have this 
knee-jerk sense that I shouldn't have to restart much of anything in 
Linux, usually..  heh.

~Brian


Alan Porter wrote:
> 
> On Debian systems, run "tzsetup"as root.  It will ask you a
> few questions, and then it will create a symbolic link called
> /etc/localtime that points to /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York.
> 
> If you want a specific user to over-ride the system default
> timezone (example: your friend in Germany logs into your
> machine here in Raleigh), that user should set his TZ
> environment variable to "Europe/Berlin".
> 
> 
> Alan
> 
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