4. Miscellaneous problems
4.1 Time zone
Denmark is placed in the Central European Time zone (CET or MET,) which (in the winter) is equivalent to Greenwich Mean Time plus 1 (GMT+1.) You set the time zone on a Linux system by making a symbolic link between
/usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime
and the file in
/usr/lib/zoneinfo/
with a name corresponding to your zone or country. Danes will want to execute one of the commands
ln -sf /usr/lib/zoneinfo/MET /etc/localtimeor
ln -sf /usr/lib/zoneinfo/Europe/Copenhagen /etc/localtime
This automatically sets Daylight Saving Time (GMT+2) in the summer.
You synchronize the system time with the CMOS clock by issuing the command
clock
as root. If your CMOS clock is set to GMT (a.k.a. UTC --- the standard on proper Unix systems) use
clock -u -sor if your CMOS clock is set to local time use
clock -s
4.2 A4 papersize
-
ghostscript: Add the command line option-sPAPERSIZE=a4. -
ghostview: Define the following Xresource:Ghostview.pageMedia: A4
-
TeX/LaTeX,dvips,xdvi: See the entry for TeX/LaTeX in section International character sets in specific applications .
4.3 Text file formats for other platforms
You can translate files between an ISO-8859-1 formatted text file and e.g. a DOS text file using codepage 850 with the
recode
package. A DOS file called
foo.txt
would be translated into a proper Unix file with the command
recode cp850:latin1 foo.txt
recode
is available as
recode-3.4.tar.gz
from all mirrors of the GNU archive
.
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