TBLinux:Changing the Time Zone

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The time zone of the TMG3200 is configured on the Linux host using the tzselect command. The following is provided as a sample of how to configure a time zone:

[root@TB005375 ]# tzselect Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly. Please select a continent 1) Africa 2) Americas . . . 10) None - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format.


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Please select a country.

1) Anguilla



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10) Canada



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51) Virgin Islands (US)


? 10


Please select one of the time zone regions.

1) Newfoundland Time, including SE Labrador



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7) Eastern Time - Quebec - most locations



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27) Pacific Time - north Yukon


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The following information has been given:

Canada

Eastern Time - Quebec - most locations



Therefore TZ= ‘America/Montreal’ will be used.

Local time is now: Wed Aug 19 08:49:01 EDT 2009.

Universal time is now: Wed Aug 19 08:49:01 UDT 2009.

Is the above information OK?

1) Yes

2) No


? 1




You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line


<&nbsp> <&nbsp> TZ= ‘America/Montreal’; export TZ

to the file ‘.profile’ in your home directory; then log out and log in again. Here is the TZ value again, this time on standard output so that you can use the /usr/bin/tzselect command in the shell script America/Montreal [root@TB005373 ]#

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 <br>
 You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line<br>
-  &nbsp &nbsp TZ= ‘America/Montreal’; export TZ<br>
+  <&nbsp> <&nbsp> TZ= ‘America/Montreal’; export TZ<br>
 to the file ‘.profile’ in your home directory; then log out and log in again.<br>
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TBLinux:Changing the Time Zone

Revision as of 10:58, 6 July 2010

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