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: Lloyd Sargent <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:48:32 -0500
On Sunday, August 26, 2001, at 12:55 PM, Carlos Weber wrote:
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).
Note that sometimes your hypothetical system may not bring up all of the
necessary functions (being hypothetical and all). For example, again
hypothetically, cut and paste my not work. Rebooting this hypothetical
system sometimes cures the ills. But that is only from a hypothetical
standpoint.
Cheers (hypothetically),
Lloyd
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