[NTLUG:Discuss] Timestamp question

[Geremy L. Hamlett]

OK,  so I ran tzselect, and set to the CST zone. 

When I run "date" it still comes up with UTC.

what am I missing?

Thanks,

On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:31:34AM -0600, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 05:28, Geremy L. Hamlett wrote:
> > "date" showes Sun Mar 9 11:24:53 UTC 2003
> 
> Your sure that's the right time? 
> "date" on my box shows:
> Sun Mar  9 11:22:54 CST 2003
> and since I'm in the Central Time zone, CST is correct. 
> 
> UTC/GMT is Greenich (sp?) Mean Time. They are 6 hours 
> behind us here in the CST zone. So your time stamps 
> show 5:28AM when you posted but you posted at 
> 11:28AM CST ( Actually, I think that you posted at 
> 11:18AM CST and your clock is 6hrs and 10 minutes
> off ) 
> 
> Anyway... the
> tzselect 
> command ( if it exist on your system ) should let you 
> set the TimeZone to CST ( remember daylight savings too ) 
> so you can set the "date" timezone to CST. 
> 
> jack 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > I think my system showes the right date.  How do i changer the mailer?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:43:04PM -0700, Tim Riker wrote:
> > > Your mailer thinks you are on GMT. Does "date" show the correct 
> > > timezone? Else run tzconfig.
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