Subject: Re: System time & date thinks its in California not NYC
To: Laine Stump <lainestump@rcn.com>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/15/2000 18:17:03
| you'll have all sorts of problems down the road. Spend the extra 5 seconds 
| it takes to type:
| 
|    ln -f -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime

FWIW, US/Eastern (and all of US/*) is deprecated. America/New_York is
the "right" choice, though it may seem less friendly and more partisan
than US/Eastern (convention is Continent/MajorCity or somesuch).

--jhawk