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

Randall Barlow rpbarlow at eos.ncsu.edu
Mon Mar 21 13:59:06 EST 2005


Check in you /etc/rc.conf file.  There should be a setting about this in 
there.  It's probably set to UTC when it should be set to "local".  HTH!

Randy Barlow

Brian Henning wrote:

> 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




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