Re: ubuntu breezy and local time

The symlink did the trick. Thanks to all those who responded.

Ayan

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From:  <i>Ulrich Hertlein &lt;[email protected]&gt;</i><br>To:  
<i>[email protected]</i><br>Subject:  <i>Re: [wm-user] ubuntu breezy 
and local time</i><br>Date:  <i>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:27:36 +0200</i><br>On 
Saturday 24 September 2005 06:15, sujit sinha wrote:<br> &gt; I put export 
TZ=US/Eastern in .bashrc. That apparantly solved the problem,<br> &gt; if I 
type date I get the right date and time. But the interesting thing is<br> 
&gt; that wmclock still gives me the wrong time and date.<br> &gt;<br> &gt; 
As to how this happened, I upgraded from Hoary to Breezy using<br> &gt; 
dist-upgrade. It probably deleted some link it shouldn't 
have.<br><br>WindowMaker is probably started from .xsession and therefore 
may not run<br>the .bashrc file (whereas a terminal will of course do this). 
wmclock is<br>started by WindowMaker and inherits it's environment and 
therefore is still<br>in the old timezone.<br><br>You really should try to 
set the systems timezone appropriately to get this<br>right. I don't know 
about ubuntu but this is usually done with /etc/localtime<br>being a 
symbolic link to the timezone file. On Gentoo this is<br>in 
/usr/share/zoneinfo.<br><br>/Ulrich<br><br>--<br>Ulrich Hertlein         
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