[kwlug disc.] Timezone updates for archiac installs

Andy Wood andyw at edmeades.ca
Sun Mar 11 22:08:52 EST 2007


> >>   # ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
> > Thank you for this simple method.
> 
> Just be careful, tzsetup will copy the file, in the method I provided I
> linked the file with a symbolic link. If your /usr is on a FS different
> from /etc you might run into problems on boot up. So cp is your safest
> bet (or run tzsetup, I had random problems with tzsetup so I just linked).
> 
> abram

[Andy Wood] will do.  I saw many references to using the symbolic link, so
used that method.
I also found that I had to restart the httpd service to have our public web
sites php code pick up the timezone change.




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