On 12/5/23 12:21, gene heskett wrote:
On 12/5/23 11:38, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 05/12/2023 05:14, Pocket wrote:
For
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zone=EST5EDT
zoneinfo=/usr/share/zoneinfo
localtime=/etc/localtime
timezone=/etc/timezone
profile=/etc/profile.d
if [ -e "$zoneinfo"/"$zone" ];then
ln -sf "$zoneinfo"/"$zone" "$localtime"
else
printf "%s\n" "Invalid zone: $zoneinfo/$zone"
exit 1
fi
printf "%s\n" "$zone" > "$timezone"
printf "%s\n" "TZ=$zone;export TZ" > "$profile"/timezone.sh
To set /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone I would recommend the command
that has been repeated several times in this thread:
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
That was not tried.
And won't work if you want to use a POSIX time zone
And I would recommend against setting the TZ environment variable
unless it is really necessary. If somebody needs it then it is better
to do it in /etc/environment.d as well. KDE has its own GUI to set
user-specific timezone, but I am unsure if selected value will be
applied in the case of console or ssh login.
I am surprised that POSIX EST5EDT timezone has irregularities at
least as it is implemented in GNU libc. I believed that it specifies
just standard and summer time.
Both America/New_York and the ESTSEDT methods are available on this
elderly buster install. tzselect outputs the America/ version.
In retrospect, I think making /etc/localtime a link to /etc/timezone
would probably have made this endless thread moot. That would work
until some update which will never happen now, deletes /etc/timezone.
That should not be done.
/etc/timezone contains the name (filespec) of the time zone not a
"pointer" to the time zone file
The education of Gene continues... I've learned a lot. Thank you all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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