Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: want PST clock not EST in ix/386
Message-ID: <3046@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 15 Mar 90 19:32:03 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Doesn't anybody have users that log into their machines from different
>timezones? And that want the timezone they want.

Yup, they can just set TZ in their own ".profile"/".login" files, if the
system default isn't appropriate.

>WRT timezones in general, Unix(tm) does seem to come in more than one
>flavo(u)r. What do we expect, standards?

Yup.  I expect the Arthur Olson code to be the standard within a few
years, since both System V Release 4 and 4.3-tahoe support it....