Time zones

[Ben Pfaff]

"Daniel R . Kilbourne" <drk@netophilia.net> writes:

> type 'man date'  :)
> 
> you can use date to set it, although I forget exactly how.

Not with the version of date on my system at least.

> or you can use 'timeconfig', although this may be a RedHat only utility

Yes, the corresponding Debian utility is tzconfig, for instance.

> I also believe 'hwclock' can be used...

Not really.  You can set the hwclock to either local time or UTC
(== GMT), but it's not meant as a way to set your timezone.
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