<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>The Linux Danish/International HOWTO: Miscellaneous problems</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Danish-HOWTO-5.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="Danish-HOWTO-3.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="Danish-HOWTO.html#toc4" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Danish-HOWTO-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Danish-HOWTO-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Danish-HOWTO.html#toc4">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s4">4. Miscellaneous problems</A><!--Danish!miscellaneous problems--><!--Danish!problems--></H2> <H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 Time zone</A> <!--Danish!problems!time zone--></H2> <P>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 <CODE>/usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime</CODE> and the file in <CODE>/usr/lib/zoneinfo/</CODE> with a name corresponding to your zone or country. Danes will want to execute one of the commands <PRE> ln -sf /usr/lib/zoneinfo/MET /etc/localtime </PRE> or <PRE> ln -sf /usr/lib/zoneinfo/Europe/Copenhagen /etc/localtime </PRE> <P>This automatically sets Daylight Saving Time (GMT+2) in the summer. <P>You synchronize the system time with the CMOS clock by issuing the command <CODE>clock</CODE> as root. If your CMOS clock is set to GMT (a.k.a. UTC --- the standard on proper Unix systems) use <PRE> clock -u -s </PRE> or if your CMOS clock is set to local time use <PRE> clock -s </PRE> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss4.2">4.2 A4 papersize</A> <!--Danish!problems!paper size--><!--Danish!problems!A4-sized paper--></H2> <P> <UL> <LI><CODE>ghostscript</CODE>: Add the command line option <CODE>-sPAPERSIZE=a4</CODE>. </LI> <LI><CODE>ghostview</CODE>: Define the following Xresource: <PRE> Ghostview.pageMedia: A4 </PRE> </LI> <LI><CODE>TeX/LaTeX</CODE>, <CODE>dvips</CODE>, <CODE>xdvi</CODE>: See the entry for TeX/LaTeX in section <A HREF="Danish-HOWTO-3.html#latex">International character sets in specific applications</A>.</LI> </UL> <P> <H2><A NAME="ss4.3">4.3 Text file formats for other platforms</A> <!--Danish!problems!text file formats--><!--Danish!problems!DOS file formats--></H2> <P>You can translate files between an ISO-8859-1 formatted text file and e.g. a DOS text file using codepage 850 with the <CODE>recode</CODE> package. A DOS file called <CODE>foo.txt</CODE> would be translated into a proper Unix file with the command <PRE> recode cp850:latin1 foo.txt </PRE> <P><CODE>recode</CODE> is available as <CODE>recode-3.4.tar.gz</CODE> from all mirrors of <A HREF="ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/gnu/">the GNU archive</A>. <P> <HR> <A HREF="Danish-HOWTO-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Danish-HOWTO-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Danish-HOWTO.html#toc4">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>