Re: [SLUG] London time in T-bird Sent Mail

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Mar 27 2009 - 09:33:28 EST


On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:

> Eben King wrote:
>
>>> root@desk:/home/Pete# cp/ usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New York
>>> /etc/localtime
>>> bash: cp/: No such file or directory
>>> root@desk:/home/Pete#
>>
>> Fix the typo: "cp/ usr/..." -> "cp /usr/..." . And you can do "sudo cp
>> ..." instead of "su" then "cp ..." (assuming sudo is set up that way). I
>> usually do "su -" instead of just "su" so it processes root's rc files too.
>> Makes sure PATH and all the aliases are the way root likes them.
>
> Hi Eben!
>
> Pete@desk:~$ su
> Password:
> root@desk:/home/Pete# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
> root@desk:/home/Pete#
>
> Don't know if it did anything, though.

Does "date" still report the wrong time zone?

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