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Consider using the interactive '''`tzsetup(8)`''' utility.

BSD Clock

On BSD, the clock generally uses UTC time with a timezone offset in software, as opposed to local time.

Contents

  1. BSD Clock
    1. Date and Time
    2. Timezone

Date and Time

Use date(1) as the root user to set the current date and time. 

# January 1st, 2001 at 12:30
date 0101011230

The CMOS clock is automatically updated to match the system clock.

Timezone

The configured timezone is set in /etc/localtime. By standard convention, this should be a symbolic link to a pre-prepared file, typically under /usr/share/zoneinfo.

To check the current configuration, try: 

realpath /etc/localtime

To change the configuration, try: 

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime

Consider using the interactive tzsetup(8) utility.

Some utilities will also respect a TZ environment variable. 

export TZ=America/New_York
date

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BSD/Clock (last edited 2023-06-29 17:14:34 by DominicRicottone)