RE: [cobalt-users] Fw: Timezone GMT problem

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I'm having a little problem on setting up the timezone on a Raq4. The
> > > current timezone is set to BRST which is set to GMT -0200 ... But
> > > the right
> > > one for our country is GMT -0300. As consequence, all email is
> > > showing with
> > > an hour difference ...
> > >
> > > How would I set the right GMT on this box ?!? I tried every entry for
> > > "Brazil" in /usr/share/timezone and throught the GUI, but all of them
> dont
> > > have the right GMT set
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Thanx in advance.
> > > Nino.
> >
> > Nino,
> > Can you not just set up an NTP server that is in the correct
> timezone for
> > you?
> > This is just done via the GUI.
> >
> > Phil
>
> I tried many NTP servers throught the GUI ... with all of them, including
> brazillian ones, the GMT is wrongly set to -0200 ... The right
> one is -0300
> ...
>
> Is there any other place in the rack that I could try to manually
> change it
> ?!?
>
> Thx!
>
I can't see why you don't just tell it it is somewhere that is -0300 then
and it should be fine. It's not using the location info for anything else
apart from that. There may be some command line functionality to do this,
but I don't see that it should be required.

Phil

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