[Freemint-discuss] Fwd: Re: Timezone and timestamp

[Peter S. <p....@sc...>]

2018-07-29 11:23 GMT+02:00 David GÃílvez <dga...@gm...>:
> Do you have the timezone data base installed?, see if you have the
> file /etc/localtime in your system, if so you don't need to set the
> system variable TZ in mint.cnf, but be aware that the file localtime
> must be the correct one for you time zone. If not you can copy it from
> /usr/share/zoneinfo to the /etc directory and rename it to
> "localtime".

>Sorry, possibly this is not the way to install your localtime file, my
>memory failed me again. The "zic" command should be used instead, read
>this:
>https://github.com/freemint/mintlib/blob/master/tz/README.1st

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The localtime file is a link to /usr/share/zoneinfo/factory which
contains:

TZif                   
   
           
   1      Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page



Peter