Setting the Time Zone Normally, it is safe to continue to the next screen after accepting the defaults that are offered by Red Hat Linux. Setting the Time Zone In the next screen, you can set the time zone of your location: Red Hat provides a very usable graphical method for intuitively selecting your time zone. To use it, bring your cursor to any point of the displayed world map - this allows you to set the time zone of your computer to that of the selected region. A green sticky arrow in the mouse cursor makes the job easier by selecting the city time zone nearest to the cursor. In the screenshot above, we have set the time zone to that of New York. Note the option at the bottom of the screen to enable UTC time in the computer clock. This allows the system to run with correct timezone and daylight saving changes. (Note that you shouldn’t use this if you have a dual-boot machine that also boots Windows.) Root Account Configuration By default, the installation process creates a single administrative user account for your machine, called root. We’ll learn more about the system’s users in subsequent chapters of the book - particularly Chapter 8. For now all you need to know is that whenever you use the system, you do so through the context of a user 30

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