BST instead of GMT
Greg 'groggy' Lehey
grog at lemis.com
Mon Apr 10 01:47:12 UTC 2006
On Friday, 7 April 2006 at 11:34:29 +0100, Philip Radford wrote:
> On Friday, April 07, 2006 12:52 AM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" wrote:
>> [text omitted]
>
> Thanks for your comments. Both /etc/localtime and
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London are the same.
>
> I have since created /etc/localtime as a symbolic link to
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London but still only shows GMT when I enter
> date.
Yes, that won't make any difference.
> The only thing I haven't mentioned to date is that I use bash as my
> shell if that is an issue.
No, I use bash too.
> Also there was a lot of talk while researching on google about a TZ
> environment variable. Should I have this set as I do not have one at
> the moment.
You shouldn't set one. But what happens with these commands?
$ date
$ TZ=Europe/London date
It could be that your clock is just set incorrectly.
Greg
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