Setting timezone in Debian

For setting time in a new country.

x61:~% sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default timezone: 'Europe/London'

Local time is now:      Tue Dec 18 16:03:32 GMT 2007.

Universal Time is now:  Tue Dec 18 16:03:32 UTC 2007.

A fairly new change from tzconfig.

16:01 <cjwatson> glibc (2.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

16:01 <cjwatson>   The script tzconfig has been removed from glibc 2.5-1 and following

16:01 <cjwatson>   versions. Please use 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' instead to configure

16:01 <cjwatson>   the timezone.

16:01 <cjwatson>  -- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>  Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:38:54 +0100

16:01 <cjwatson> libc6/NEWS.Debian.gz