On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 08:13:53AM +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1
> On 17.01.2012 03:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, everybody. > > I've finally become zic and tired of messages like > > Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual > > page 2012 on tty14 > > . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just glaze over. I "just" want > > my time to be GMT (or UTC or UCT, or whatever it's called these > > days). Surely I don't have to go through the palaver described in > > the zic manual page. > > Help, please! > Should be done with: > ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime Thanks, that did it. > (Berlin is my guess since you hail from Nuremberg, otherwise look in > /usr/share/zoneinfo if something fits better) Actually I set it to UTC. Even though I live in De, I leave my watch set to UTC and make the required conversion every time I look at it. It's not hard, begin only one or two hours different, depending on the season. > Kind regards, > Hinnerk -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
