Argh - setting timezone from command line in FC

[Paul Lussier]

Python <python at venix.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:27 -0500, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
>> All the references I can find via google tell me how easy it is to set
>> the server time zone with the grapohical tool... how do I do it from
>> the command line in FC3?
>
> tzselect	it will prompt you

On a debian system I see:

$ apropos timezone
Time::Zone (3pm)     - - miscellaneous timezone manipulations routines
timezone (3) [tzset] - initialize time conversion information
tzconfig (8)         - set the local timezone
tzcoord.pl (1)       - script that prints coordinates of a named timezone
tzselect (1)         - view timezones
tzsetup (8)          - set the local timezone

So, it would seem that tzconfig and tzsetup are the ones most likely to help.
But why two programs? Further investigation reveals:

$ dpkg -S `which tzsetup`;dpkg -S `which tzconfig`
base-config: /usr/sbin/tzsetup
libc6: /usr/sbin/tzconfig

$ ls -l /usr/sbin/tz
tzconfig  tzsetup   

$ ls -l /usr/sbin/tz*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3142 2004-10-01 02:26 /usr/sbin/tzconfig
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         4854 2002-05-01 15:19 /usr/sbin/tzsetup

Very strange indeed.  From the man pages, it appears that tzsetup is
by a different author (Joey Hess) than tzconfig and tzselect (Marcus
Brinkman).  I don't think that's helpful though :)
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Seeya,
Paul