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** Windows. |
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Windows assume that system timer display locale time. |
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** Debian. |
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UTC=no - system timer display locale time, UTC=yes - UTC time. |
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$ cat /etc/default/rcS |
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UTC=no |
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UTC=yes |
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If system dual boot with Windows you must set UTC=no. |
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Or set utc time: |
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$ sudo date --utc --set="2009-02-22 12:12:00" +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" |
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May be prefer use ntpdate(8) command. |
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* Get timezone. |
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System wide configuration: |
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$ cat /etc/timezone |
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* Get list of supported timezone. |
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$ tzselect |
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* Set timezone. |
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$ sudo tzconfig |
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Your current time zone is set to Europe/Kiev |
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Do you want to change that? [n]: y |
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Please enter the number of the geographic area in which you live: |
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1) Africa 7) Australia |
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2) America 8) Europe |
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3) US time zones 9) Indian Ocean |
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4) Canada time zones 10) Pacific Ocean |
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5) Asia 11) Use System V style time zones |
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6) Atlantic Ocean 12) None of the above |
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Number: 8 |
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Then you will be shown a list of cities which represent the time zone |
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in which they are located. You should choose a city in your time zone. |
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Amsterdam Andorra Athens Belfast Belgrade Berlin Bratislava Brussels |
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Bucharest Budapest Chisinau Copenhagen Dublin Gibraltar Guernsey Helsinki |
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Isle_of_Man Istanbul Jersey Kaliningrad Kiev Lisbon Ljubljana London |
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Luxembourg Madrid Malta Mariehamn Minsk Monaco Moscow Nicosia Oslo Paris |
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Podgorica Prague Riga Rome Samara San_Marino Sarajevo Simferopol Skopje |
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Sofia Stockholm Tallinn Tirane Tiraspol Uzhgorod Vaduz Vatican Vienna |
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Vilnius Volgograd Warsaw Zagreb Zaporozhye Zurich |
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Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones |
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You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities |
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Press Enter to view all of them again |
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Name: [] Kiev |
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Your default time zone is set to 'Europe/Kiev'. |
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Local time is now: Sun Feb 22 12:40:16 EET 2009. |
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Universal Time is now: Sun Feb 22 10:40:16 UTC 2009. |
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Your current time zone is set to Europe/Kiev |
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Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly. |
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Please select a continent or ocean. |
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1) Africa |
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2) Americas |
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3) Antarctica |
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4) Arctic Ocean |
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5) Asia |
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1) Aaland Islands 18) Greece 35) Norway |
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2) Albania 19) Guernsey 36) Poland |
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4) Austria 21) Ireland 38) Romania |
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7) Bosnia & Herzegovina 24) Jersey 41) Serbia |
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8) Britain (UK) 25) Latvia 42) Slovakia |
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9) Bulgaria 26) Liechtenstein 43) Slovenia |
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10) Croatia 27) Lithuania 44) Spain |
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12) Denmark 29) Macedonia 46) Switzerland |
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15) France 32) Monaco 49) Vatican City |
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16) Germany 33) Montenegro |
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1) most locations 3) Zaporozh'ye, E Lugansk |
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Local time is now: Mon Mar 30 17:25:21 EEST 2009. |
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Universal Time is now: Mon Mar 30 14:25:21 UTC 2009. |
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Is the above information OK? |
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TZ='Europe/Kiev'; export TZ |
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