{"id":483,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=483"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"custom-time-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Custom time zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To have your own city or town show up in the Time preferences panel, for selecting your time zone, simply create a symbolic link in the correct <code>\/etc\/timezones\/<\/code> subdirectory which points to a city in the same timezone as you.<br \/>\nFor instance, I live in Temecula, CA, which is just north of San Diego, and in the same time zone as Los Angeles. Here&#8217;s what I did:<\/p>\n<pre> $ cd \/etc\/timezones\/North_and_Central_America\/\n$ ln -s Los_Angeles Temecula <\/pre>\n<p>Now when I go to the Time preferences applet, Temecula shows up in the scroll box!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To have your own city or town show up in the Time preferences panel, for selecting your time zone, simply create a symbolic link in the correct \/etc\/timezones\/ subdirectory which points to a city in the same timezone as you. For instance, I live in Temecula, CA, which is just north of San Diego, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}