A couple ways; earlier I mentioned sysinst -- again, the Utilities menu has an option to select a timezone, e.g. either a "regional" setting like "America/New_York" or one of the mnemonic's like "EDT".
The NetBSD Guide (section 3.13. System configuration) shows what this might look like during an install, you can run sysinst after a completed installation as well: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/netbsd.html#exinst-system-configuration The Guide in general is a good resource if you're just starting out with NetBSD and figuring out how to do admin and config things. You could also manually replace the /etc/localtime symlink with another of your choosing. Same effect as using sysinst. sr. On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 04:46:10PM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote: > So I ent to /etc ,and looked. > > localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC > > That was set by system on Mar 28 -- I upgraded the system. > The current mess happened when I was playing with ntpdate / ntpd . > So how do I fix it?? > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 4:08 PM Steve Rikli <s...@genyosha.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 03:13:30PM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > I reset time to 13:10 -- my current time for EST is about > > > 11:10 . > > > > > > How do I reset this back to this time, and at in EST > > > > Timezone is set by the /etc/localtime file, which is typically a symlink > > pointing to a time zone definition file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. > > > > E.g. for a system in the US on the west coast, you might have: > > > > $ ls -la /etc/localtime > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 39 Aug 31 21:39 /etc/localtime -> > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles > > > > If you don't set the timezone during installation or with 'sysinst' at > > some point, NetBSD defaults to UTC. > > > > sysinst Utility menu has a selection for setting timezone, you can also > > adjust the /etc/localtime symlink to your preference. > > > > Note that changing the timezone doesn't actually change the clock itself, > > merely the system's display of the time. If you want to change the clock > > you could use the date(1) command to do it manually, run ntpdate / ntpd(8) > > if you want the system to regularly sync with other time servers, etc. > > > > cheers, > > sr.
