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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