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From: lawc@super.ece.jhu.edu (Chiu-Tai Law)
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Subject: Re: Setting timezone in sendmail 5.61
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Date: 7 Mar 91 19:13:07 GMT
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In article <1991Mar7.092840.13878@cs.nott.ac.uk> cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) writes:
>The sendmail I'm running on our M/2000 under RiscOS 4.51 always seems
>to believe it's operating in the Pacific timezone, so the timestamps
>are 8 hours behind GMT.  I've checked I have a Ot option in my
>sendmail.cf to set the timezones appropriately
>
># time zone names (V6 only)
>OtGMT,BST
>
>but the comment makes me wonder if timezones are still supported in
>this way (the .cf file is generated using the UK-Sendmail 2.1 package).
>Our /etc/TZ file is set up correctly.  Is there anything else which
>should be set to make sendmail use the GMT timezone?
>
>--dave
>(David Osborne, Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham)

Since this question occurs more than once, I decide to post it.
You need to set the time zone in the bsd side also with zic.
Look at the man page for zic and files in /etc/zoneinfo.
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Chiu Tai Law				lawc@super.ece.jhu.edu
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