Also: I was wondering what requires less typing ;-)
Btw: I must have messed up this while installing. (wonder where I missed the "Europe" path in installation.
]]># dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
This isn't Arch
]]>EDIT:
Yes it is. Use
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime
Example to set it to US Central "on the fly"
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