a/ Obtain the appropriate zoneinfo file for your timezone.

This binary file will contain generalized rules for converting between GMT and your local time. One location where these files are kept is here, but their format has not changed in a long time and is not expected to change anytime soon so you can pull one from the Linux distribution of your choice.

b) Copy this file to the Bering ramdisk as /etc/localtime. On most conventional Linux distributions, /etc/localtime would be a symbolic link to the appropriate file in /usr/share/zoneinfo/, but that directory is not contained in etc.lrp and having symbolic links across packages is not recommended.

c) Use the "date" command to confirm that the zoneinfo file is behaving as desired.