On Friday, 7 April 2006 at 11:34:29 +0100, Philip Radford wrote: > On Friday, April 07, 2006 12:52 AM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote: >> [text omitted] > > Thanks for your comments. Both /etc/localtime and > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London are the same. > > I have since created /etc/localtime as a symbolic link to > /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London but still only shows GMT when I enter > date.
Yes, that won't make any difference. > The only thing I haven't mentioned to date is that I use bash as my > shell if that is an issue. No, I use bash too. > Also there was a lot of talk while researching on google about a TZ > environment variable. Should I have this set as I do not have one at > the moment. You shouldn't set one. But what happens with these commands? $ date $ TZ=Europe/London date It could be that your clock is just set incorrectly. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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