I have very seldom run into a situation where google did not give me a correct answer. Sometimes the first hit is not always right / succinct either. It takes experience googling to know what to look for, and this does not always work either.
Anyway, answers linked on debian.org, and superuser are typically succinct and correct. Also, as I had not reconfigured time zone, and dash before, or in a while i did google searches on these myself not but a few months ago. Regardless, this is all part of the learning process for everyone. On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Dennis Cote <denn...@harding.ca> wrote: > On Friday, March 14, 2014 2:56:50 PM UTC-6, William Hermans wrote: >> >> Dennis, just so you know, you should be able to google "debian" + >> whatever keyword you need to know something about to find an answer. We're >> talking basic Linux / Debian stuff here. For example. >> >> google -> howto change debian timezone, and you will very likely find >> what i asked about last night "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata". >> >> > I did that and ended up at > http://www.debian-administration.org/article/213/Changing_the_timezone_of_your_Debian_systemwhich > suggested the tzselect command (which in turn suggested adding a TZ > environment variable, which in turn led to me seeing that my .profile > wasn't being executed, etc). > > I also saw the page at https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges but the > text at the top of that page and the titles of the other sections made it > seem more about checking and adapting the system to changes in the dates of > daylight saving etc. I just wanted to set my timezone. The section where > "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" is mentioned has the title "Check Configured > Timezone", and the text of the command itself didn't lead me to conclude it > would change my timezone. Had I read in more detail I would have seem what > it did, but I was skimming for something that said "this is how to change > your timezone" as on the page above. > > >> Anyway, dont feel as though I am putting you down by saying this. quite >> the contrary actually. >> > > No problem, no offence taken. I just want to point out that not all google > searches (or searchers) lead to the best answer. > > Dennis Cote > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
