time change - RESOLVED

Kalyan Vaidyanathan kalyan_v at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 20 08:54:32 EDT 2002


Hi,
  Thanks for all the responses.  I now have it fixed.

regards,
-kalyan

>From: Nathan Meyers <nmeyers at javalinux.net>
>To: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
>CC: Kalyan Vaidyanathan <kalyan_v at hotmail.com>, discuss at blu.org
>Subject: Re: time change
>Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 22:10:47 -0400
>
>On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:14:56PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > usually the way to solve this problem is to keep the system
> > clock in "local" time and set linux to know that the system is
> > in local, not utc, time.
>
>And the way you do that, at least on Mandrake, is to copy the
>relevant file from /usr/share/zoneinfo/* to /etc/localtime.
>For example, copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT to /etc/localtime
>for our time zone.
>
>Nathan
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