Next Previous Contents 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/localtime or 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 -s or 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. Next Previous Contents