Setting time zone from shell?

[patrick]

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?

Thanks,

Patrick

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 02.11.2005 schrieb patrick um 1:17:
> 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?
> Patrick

The settings are stored in /etc/sysconfig/clock.

Alexander

[Norman Gaywood]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:23:39AM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 02.11.2005 schrieb patrick um 1:17:
> > 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?
>
> The settings are stored in /etc/sysconfig/clock.

Also /usr/sbin/timeconfig can be used to change the settings.

[Marcin Struzak]

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?

Check out http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html, it should have all 
you need.

--Marcin

[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.  ;-)