Re: Another way to set the system time zone???
Re: Another way to set the system time zone???
- Subject: Re: Another way to set the system time zone???
- From: Carlos Weber <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:55:37 -1000
On Sunday, August 26, 2001, at 03:21 AM, John C. Randolph wrote:
On Sunday, August 26, 2001, at 04:54 AM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
On Sunday, August 26, 2001, at 04:43 , Carlos Weber wrote:
If the System Preferences Panel in a hypothetical pre-release build
of Mac OS X would not, for some strange reason, let the user set
her/his time zone (say for example that it grayed out the popup menu
of time zones whenever one chose a region on the world map, and
displayed the text "No Time Zones"!?!), would anyone be able to think
of a workaround. A way, for example, of setting the time zone that
didn't involve the System Preferences UI??
I'd reinstall this hypothetical system, just like I would have done
three times in the last non-existing week. This hypothetical system
would be very pre-release-like and I would not recommend it for
theoretical production use or storing important hypothetical data.
Apple would have recommended this, too.
It might be a good idea to ask the Apple employees on this list where
there might be a mailing list for those of us who might hypothetically
be covered by an NDA, where we could ask about how to work around the
kinds of bugs which could exist on such a build.
Excellent idea. Someone did point out to me that the file /etc/localtime
is a symlink to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. If, e.g., I were a
Hawaii developer with this hypothetical problem I could point the link
at /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Hawaii, and all might appear to be well (until
the next problem surfaced, so Andreas' caution would, of course, still
be a wise counsel).