On Mon 17 Jun 2024 at 10:23:46 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 09:14:38AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > You asked after your /system/ clock. I don't think I can tell whether > > it's set to UTC or Local Time, but only that it is correct, whichever > > it it on. Likewise the hardware RTC. The third line of /etc/adjtime > > says what the RTC is on; /etc/timezone says what the system is on; > > $ date says what your user is on. > > /etc/timezone is only used by some legacy programs. All the current > ones should be using /etc/localtime instead, which is a symlink to a > binary zoneinfo file, rather than a text file containing a timezone name.
You're right of course, but confirming its value does involve using a command that's probably not at the front of one's mind. BTW what's the relationship between "current programs" and TZ nowadays? > I wonder if Keith's confusion is simply due to my MUA using "AM" and "PM" > in its attribution line, and Keith not seeing the "PM". Maybe I should > look into configuring that differently. Along with 350M Americans! They even use just A and P over here. And a mere dot on digital clocks. (I see you've changed it already!) Cheers, David.
