Setting time zone

Ankit Jain ankit1.jain at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 19:53:59 UTC 2005


I had the same problem. If you do 
rpm -qf /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab
you can find out the package from where it should come . If you are
using FC3 I think you need to reinstall this package
tzdata-2005f-1.fc3.noarch.rpm.

Ankit

On 6/28/05, Truls Gulbrandsen <trulsg at broadpark.no> wrote:
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> Hi,
> can someone please assist me in setting the correct time zone.  I am
> very sure that when I installed my FC I specified local time zone to be
> Norway i.e. GMT - 1hr.  Now my system shows UTC and I am not given an
> any altnative zones when trying to correct.  I have tried Gnome
> settings, KDE settings and system-config-time.
> 
> This issue surfaces as I have tried to figure out why my mails always
> shows 2 hrs difference to the local time and I have concluded this is
> due to the fact that my FC3 shows UTC and not the correct CET, I believe
> it is.
> 
> The system-config-time returns this message in the terminal, if the
> problem is missing file zone.tab, can this be restored?:
> 
> system-config-time
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ~  File "/usr/share/system-config-date/mainWindow.py", line 180, in
> custom_handler
> ~    return module.custom_widgets[function_name] ()
> ~  File "/usr/share/system-config-date/timezone_gui.py", line 40, in
> timezone_widget_create
> ~    widget = TimezoneMap(ZoneTab (), default, map=path)
> ~  File "/usr/share/system-config-date/zonetab.py", line 31, in __init__
> ~    self.readZoneTab(fn)
> ~  File "/usr/share/system-config-date/zonetab.py", line 69, in readZoneTab
> ~    f = open(fn, 'r')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab'
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Truls
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