Re: How do I set my timezone?

Fabio Mierlo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
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I do not know how Gobo handle that, but in others distros some packages
copy the tz file to /etc/localtime.

So if you symlink, the source can be overwritten by another file.

Because of this I prefer to first remove and then copy rather than symlink
this file.


Fabio Mierlo

On 19 May 2016 at 15:47, Hisham Muhammad <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 19 May 2016 at 09:59, Paul Dufresne <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There not seems to have a Tzdata program, or a Timezone program.
> > So how can I set my timezone?
>
> Simply symlink /etc/localtime to the appropriate entry. Here's mine:
>
> hisham@pointer ~]ls -l /etc/localtime
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Feb  3 18:19 /etc/localtime ->
> /System/Index/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo
>
> Cheers!
>
> -- Hisham
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