On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Dylan Hardison wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Pete Theisen <petetheisen@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Dylan Hardison wrote:
>>> open a terminal and type echo $TZ.
>>> What's it say?
>>
>> Hi Dylan!
>>
>> Pete@desk:~$ date
>> Tue Mar 24 15:04:40 UTC 2009
>> Pete@desk:~$ echo $TZ
> Alright, you can either set TZ globally or copy a timezone file to the
> right place.
>
> What distro are you running?
Huh, I get:
eben@pc:~$ date
Wed Mar 25 15:15:40 EDT 2009
eben@pc:~$ echo $TZ
md5sums:
e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa /etc/localtime
e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa /usr/share/zoneinfo/SystemV/EST5EDT
e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules
e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/US/Eastern
e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/America/New_York
e4ca381035a34b7a852184cc0dd89baa /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/SystemV/EST5EDT
So does that mean it's OK? I've experienced no peculiarities.
/etc/localtime is not a link, it's a regular file.
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