Shell Looking up Timezone and update php.ini

sajigol919 · Feb 26, 2021

I'm trying to script (sh) an installation of PHP. The script installs php74, copies /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production to /usr/local/etc/php.ini etc. This is all working. I'm now trying to automatically update the timezone in php.ini.

My qustion: Is it possible to find the continent and timezone in FreeBSD (e.g. Asia/Calcutta) and pass this through to php.ini with sed(1)

;date.timezone =

to

date.timezone = Asia/Calcutta

Any pointers or examples will be greatly appreciated !

Jose · Feb 27, 2021

Looks like that is kept in /var/db/zoneinfo.

It was not easy to find this information.

sajigol919 · Feb 27, 2021

Perfect, Jose. I had looked at different places, but couldn't find it, e.g.

Code:

tail -n1 /etc/localtime

Thank you so much.

Jose · Feb 27, 2021

sajigol919 said:
Perfect, Jose. I had looked at different places, but couldn't find it, e.g.

Code:

tail -n1 /etc/localtime

Thank you so much.

Glad it helped. Yeah, I looked at /etc/localtime first too. It's a lovely binary file.