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From: gurney@cpsin2.uucp (Eddy J Gurney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Neophyte Question: Changeing system timezone
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Date: 5 Jun 90 00:58:57 GMT
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OK... I thought I could figure this one out, but I haven't been able to.  So
I'll ask my (probably) simple question here on netland.

When sendmail sends and receives mail, it timestamps the "Received by:" 
line incorrectly.  We're in the "EST5EDT" timezone, and that is set correctly
by the /etc/environment file.  However, the offset should be '-0400' from
GMT since we're currently in D.S.T., but it's not - it says '-0500', and is
subtracting an hour from the time the mail was actually received.

I did some tests using the 'date' command as the superuser, and it does
switch from EDT/EST like it should (probably because date is reading the
default TZ variable.)  I would guess that sendmail is reading the system
timezone, which is probably not configured for D.S.T. or something.

Any suggestions?
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Eddy J. Gurney, N8FPW -- gurney@frith.egr.msu.edu   OR   17158EJG@MSU.BITNET
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