James Wu <j...@eyereturn.com> wrote: > When I run the cmd "date", I get UTC time on a fresh boot of an imaged > machine. I'd like to find a way to set the time to "America/New_York" > for automatically via script. A reboot is ok if absolutely needed but > not preferred.
mv -f /etc/timezone /etc/timezone.old echo America/New_York >/etc/timezone > I've tried the following methods without success: > "cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/timezone" If you look at the original contents of /etc/timezone before you overwrite it, you'll see it's a timezone name not a zone file. (At least, on my Debian box it is so.) > + changing > "UTC=yes to UTC=no" in /etc/default/rcS Don't do that! > I even tried rebooting afterwards In the case of changing the system default timezone this is probably not such a bad idea. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/u5cmo7xc44....@news.roaima.co.uk
