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@@ -44,103 +44,12 @@
* Set timezone.
$ sudo tzconfig
-Your current time zone is set to Europe/Kiev
-Do you want to change that? [n]: y
-
-Please enter the number of the geographic area in which you live:
-
- 1) Africa 7) Australia
- 2) America 8) Europe
- 3) US time zones 9) Indian Ocean
- 4) Canada time zones 10) Pacific Ocean
- 5) Asia 11) Use System V style time zones
- 6) Atlantic Ocean 12) None of the above
-
-Number: 8
-
-Then you will be shown a list of cities which represent the time zone
-in which they are located. You should choose a city in your time zone.
-
-Amsterdam Andorra Athens Belfast Belgrade Berlin Bratislava Brussels
-Bucharest Budapest Chisinau Copenhagen Dublin Gibraltar Guernsey Helsinki
-Isle_of_Man Istanbul Jersey Kaliningrad Kiev Lisbon Ljubljana London
-Luxembourg Madrid Malta Mariehamn Minsk Monaco Moscow Nicosia Oslo Paris
-Podgorica Prague Riga Rome Samara San_Marino Sarajevo Simferopol Skopje
-Sofia Stockholm Tallinn Tirane Tiraspol Uzhgorod Vaduz Vatican Vienna
-Vilnius Volgograd Warsaw Zagreb Zaporozhye Zurich
-
-Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones
-You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities
-Press Enter to view all of them again
-
-Name: [] Kiev
-
-Your default time zone is set to 'Europe/Kiev'.
-Local time is now: Sun Feb 22 12:40:16 EET 2009.
-Universal Time is now: Sun Feb 22 10:40:16 UTC 2009.
-Your current time zone is set to Europe/Kiev
+...
Or using tzselect:
$ sudo tzselect
-Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.
-Please select a continent or ocean.
- 1) Africa
- 2) Americas
- 3) Antarctica
- 4) Arctic Ocean
- 5) Asia
- 6) Atlantic Ocean
- 7) Australia
- 8) Europe
- 9) Indian Ocean
-10) Pacific Ocean
-11) none - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format.
-#? 8
-Please select a country.
- 1) Aaland Islands 18) Greece 35) Norway
- 2) Albania 19) Guernsey 36) Poland
- 3) Andorra 20) Hungary 37) Portugal
- 4) Austria 21) Ireland 38) Romania
- 5) Belarus 22) Isle of Man 39) Russia
- 6) Belgium 23) Italy 40) San Marino
- 7) Bosnia & Herzegovina 24) Jersey 41) Serbia
- 8) Britain (UK) 25) Latvia 42) Slovakia
- 9) Bulgaria 26) Liechtenstein 43) Slovenia
-10) Croatia 27) Lithuania 44) Spain
-11) Czech Republic 28) Luxembourg 45) Sweden
-12) Denmark 29) Macedonia 46) Switzerland
-13) Estonia 30) Malta 47) Turkey
-14) Finland 31) Moldova 48) Ukraine
-15) France 32) Monaco 49) Vatican City
-16) Germany 33) Montenegro
-17) Gibraltar 34) Netherlands
-#? 48
-Please select one of the following time zone regions.
-1) most locations 3) Zaporozh'ye, E Lugansk
-2) Ruthenia 4) central Crimea
-#? 1
-
-The following information has been given:
-
- Ukraine
- most locations
-
-Therefore TZ='Europe/Kiev' will be used.
-Local time is now: Mon Mar 30 17:25:21 EEST 2009.
-Universal Time is now: Mon Mar 30 14:25:21 UTC 2009.
-Is the above information OK?
-1) Yes
-2) No
-#? 1
-
-You can make this change permanent for yourself by appending the line
- TZ='Europe/Kiev'; export TZ
-to the file '.profile' in your home directory; then log out and log in again.
-
-Here is that TZ value again, this time on standard output so that you
-can use the /usr/bin/tzselect command in shell scripts:
-Europe/Kiev
+...
** Debian Lenny.