Re: Setting time zone from shell?

[Derek Martin]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 04:17:36PM -0800, patrick wrote:
> How does one change the time zone of the machine? And, if during
> installation I didn't select "System clock uses UTC" but now I do want
> this enabled, how do I change that?

Use the TZ environment variable.

For details, see the man page for "environ":

$ man 5 environ

Also, see the tzselect program for information about how to set this
variable to useful values.  ;-)