Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On 28 Sep 2024 23:21:43 GMT, vallor wrote:
 

$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jul 16 07:50 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

 
This is a ?system default? timezone, which is not something that
really makes sense on Linux.

Actually having that link makes sense on Linux and the BSDs.
It is used to default time display for users.
Like times from 'ls -l', 'date' ...

You can set TZ equal to whatever timezone in /usr/share/zoneinfo
you want.
For example:

% setenv TZ America/Denver
% date
Wed Oct  2 15:09:45 MDT 2024
% l x.txt
-rw-------  1 jmccue  jmccue  116 Sep 22 14:48 x.txt
% setenv TZ America/New_York
% date
Wed Oct  2 17:10:32 EDT 2024
neutron % l x.txt
-rw-------  1 jmccue  jmccue  116 Sep 22 16:48 x.txt

If TZ is not set, the default is from /etc/localtime

Setting TZ is standard on many UN*X systems, though the zone
database may be a bit different.

But, a lot of Desktop Environments (KDE, GNOME) tend to
ignore this setting and force people to use their own
internal date set.  I blame that on Linux people having
no clue on how the TZ database really works.

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