Do you then have to relogin or restart for this to take effect? I just copied the Eastern file from the US folder in timezones and renamed both the file and the original localtime folder (called it 'localtime2' and the Eastern file 'localtime').
Thanks. On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:12, Derek wrote: > On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 3:09 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > Having a problem with timezones...for some reason, my clock in KDE is > > displaying time in UTC instead of EDT (America/New York). When I > > attempt to change the timezone via the KDE clock, I get an error saying > > 'error setting new timezone'. I can go into MCC and make changes > > there, but that throws the clock in KDE off more. How do I go about > > getting this straightened out? > > Are you running 9.2 RC2? I reported this as a bug in 9.2. > > Your Timezone is controlled by a file called /etc/localtime This is a binary > file used to describe your timezone. > But in 9.2RC2 /etc/localtime is a directory which contains the 'localtime' > files for different timezones around the world. To get mine working I had to > rename the /etc/localtime directory, and then copy the timezone file for my > region out of that renamed directory to the file /etc/localtime. > > HTH > > derek -- Cheers, Trey --- Today's Affirmation (selected automatically just for you): At a given moment I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing. - Ugo Betti
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