On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:12:36PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:09:39PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:03:42PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > > > First off, I must say, deboostrap is fantastico! I have a linux-vserver > > > partition using about 130 MB for the base install and only 5 processes > > > running! Can you get much leaner than that for a server? > > > > > > question: the system as installed by debootstrap left me with a system > > > clock configured to show UTC, i.e. Greenwich +0000. How can I change > > > the system to report time in local mean time (LMT) ? > > > > > > And what will such a change do to file timestamps? I'm guessing that > > > an ext3 filesystem does not store the timezone with the file, so that > > > if a file was stamped as 01:30 before the change, it will still be > > > stamped as 01:30 after the change to LMT. Which implies that all existing > > > files will have a time stamp that is 11:00 hours too old. > > > > I thought the file stamps where always recorded as UTC. And the system would > > change the time for the TZ > an example > > > test > ls -l test > TZ=UTC ls -l test > > should see something like this > > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 0 2007-01-19 15:11 test > -rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 0 2007-01-19 04:11 test came across another command that might be of interest
stat stat -c %z /tmp TZ=UTC stat -c %z /tmp > > > > > > > > > > > > Any pointers most appreciated. > > > > > > cheers > > > rickw > > > > > > > > > -- > > > _________________________________ > > > Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services > > > > > > The 7 R's of Windows support: retry, restart, reboot, reconfigure, > > > reinstall, reformat and finally, replace with Linux. > > > > > > -- > > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
