[X4U] Clock problem

Stroller macmonster at myrealbox.com
Sat Jul 14 13:22:16 PDT 2007


On 14 Jul 2007, at 17:54, Thomas W Noel wrote:
> ...
> I still don't know where the preference for time zone gets stored,  
> but the problem must have been a corrupted file (perhaps the  
> preference pane itself?).

$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  33 Jun 20  2006 /etc/localtime -> /usr/ 
share/zoneinfo/Europe/London
$

> The problem was solved by running the ComboUpdater 10.4.10 to that  
> drive.

Ooops. Too late now.

I intended to reply earlier - it'd have been interesting to see the  
permissions on that file & what it said. /etc/localtime is the way to  
set timezone in Unix but I have no idea whether OS X respects it.

Stroller.


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