Time zones

Ben Pfaff pfaffben@msu.edu
07 Aug 2000 14:39:35 -0400


Mark Szidik - MLC <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us> writes:

> How do I change my timezone in Linux?  My date command is returning CDT
> instead of EDT.

On Debian, you use the tzconfig utility.  This just sets the link
from /etc/localtime to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo; e.g.,
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Michigan in my case.  You can also set
timezone on a per-user basis with the TZ environment variable
IIRC.