timezone problem

Mathsniper · 06-06-2005, 05:16 AM

my KDE always show UST timezone. whereas i wanted to change it to be UTC thus i typed this command, [export TZ=UTC]. then i typed command "date". It showed correct time, Sat Jun 4 19:29:59 UTC 2005. But It was changed after closed terminal. What's matter? how can i set timezone absolutely?

bathory · 06-06-2005, 05:40 AM

Just put "export TZ=UTC" in /etc/profile.

Regards

makuyl · 06-06-2005, 02:45 PM

Have to guess your distro but on debian you run tzconfig to set the time zone and set KDE to show local time.

Mathsniper · 06-07-2005, 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bathory
Just put "export TZ=UTC" in /etc/profile.

Regards

This action doesn't work.

bathory · 06-07-2005, 07:27 AM

You must logout and login again for the change to take effect.

Mathsniper · 06-07-2005, 07:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bathory
You must logout and login again for the change to take effect.

I have rebooted computer and try to logout and login whereas it seem doesn't take action

bathory · 06-07-2005, 08:06 AM

What is the output of the "date" command before and after exporting TZ?
Also why don't you tell us your distro, so you can get more help.

Mathsniper · 06-08-2005, 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bathory
What is the output of the "date" command before and after exporting TZ?
Also why don't you tell us your distro, so you can get more help.

I'm using debian sarge. "Wed Jun 8 17:51:20 UTC 2005" is the output of the date command after "export TZ=UTC", beforce "Thu Jun 9 01:51:09 CST 2005" was showed.

bathory · 06-08-2005, 05:31 AM

As makuyl said above, in debian you can use the tzconfig utility to adjust your TZ.

makuyl · 06-08-2005, 12:55 PM

You can also set the timezone with tzselect, or make the symlink /etc/localtime manually. Also have a look at "man tzsetup".