****Changing the Time Zone

[Bryan O'Neal]

The date command only changes the time for the user, I was hoping for a
global alteration.

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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
Craig White
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:19 PM
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Subject: RE: ****Changing the Time Zone

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

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