****Changing the Time Zone

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 19:55 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> The hardware clock is already set to UTC.  I realize that I could set it
> forward 7 hours and have my timezone set it back seven but that is
> nasty.  Unless you can use this somehow with hctosys to not only set the
> time but also change the time zone...  Though the man does mention the
> command tzset, and that looks promising.  I will let you know.
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fwiw, I typically use 'date' command to set the time/date and then
hwclock --systohc to set the hardware clock but I don't know if setting
the timezone or utc functions through these commands makes a permanent
change.

Craig