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Article #10411Re: Changing Timezones in SunOS 4.0
From: Brian Thorstad
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1989 07:39
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1989 07:39
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D. Moline writes: > Once the timezone has been set for a system under version 4.0 is it > possible to change it to something else without re-installing the OS. and our moderator adds: > [[ Do timezones move all that often in the "land > down under"? --wnl ]] While I agree that not too many machines move across time zones, very few machines arrive with the correct time zone set by default (say those delivered to the west coast of the U.S.?). I was very disappointed when I added a lone sun/3 to my 386i network and found that I had to reconfigure the kernel to get the date correct. Brian Thorstad (thorstad@wooglin.scc.com)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: thorstad@wooglin.scc.com (Brian Thorstad) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Changing Timezones in SunOS 4.0 Message-ID: <8901132253.AA03430@wooglin.scc.com> Date: 19 Jan 89 07:39:38 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Unidata/UCAR, Boulder Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 17:53:02 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 112, message 4 of 14