setting a timezone

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, John P. Looney wrote:

>  I thought it would be /etc/sysconfig/timezone, however this contains;
> 
> ZONE_INFO_DIR="/usr/share/zoneinfo"
> ZONE_INFO_SCHEME="posix"
> ZONE_INFO_AREA="Europe"
> TIME_ZONE="Eire"
> 
>  And $TZ in shell is empty. It seems I'm set to UTC all the time. Should I
> just put "export TZ=Eire" into /etc/profile, and leave it at that ?

This data are used for setting up on boot /etc/localtime symlink. IIRC
this fits all what is necessary for setup default system time zone. If
someone want use other zone other than default must setup in private
~/.profile TZ variable.

kloczek
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