Bug 15151 – Better timezone setup

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description SpanKY 2003-02-04 23:40:55 UTC]

this applies to all Install guides really ... 
under Codelisting 16.1 we tell users to do this: 
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/path/to/timezonefile /etc/localtime 
 
a better idea might be to tell them to run `tzselect`, or if they want to set the zone by hand 
they can link the file ...

[Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-02-09 15:23:14 UTC]

i will look into this

[Comment 2 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-02-09 19:09:00 UTC]

You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line
        TZ='America/New_York'; export TZ
to the file '.profile' in your home directory; then log out and log in again.

I got this message from the completion of tzselect. Is the change permanent?

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-02-09 22:48:33 UTC]

i know nothing about tzselect :) 

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-02-11 10:25:16 UTC]

Bah! Then why request it! ;-)

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2003-02-11 12:56:33 UTC]

because it does the samething but easier ;)

[Comment 6 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-02-14 03:44:39 UTC]

hmm, well, I will see what I can do then 

[Comment 7 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-02-17 00:16:30 UTC]

I really dont think this is an issue, as I have not heard any problems on timezone config. Leaving this out for the brevity dept.