Up.
authorOleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:27:20 +0300
changeset 74 a228e365a16b
parent 67 410741eab880
child 75 56267560b7d5
Up.
date.rst
--- a/date.rst	Mon Mar 30 13:03:35 2009 +0300
+++ b/date.rst	Mon Mar 30 17:27:20 2009 +0300
@@ -62,3 +62,65 @@
 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