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From: michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Setting timezone in sendmail 5.61
Message-ID: <352@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au>
Date: 18 Mar 91 04:21:32 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.092840.13878@cs.nott.ac.uk> <344@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au> <1991Mar14.123437.12239@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) writes:

>Nothing that drastic was required (though I do have the 5.61 sources).

>Someone, whose name I have lost, suggested the solution, and that
>was to use zic to set up the default timezone using the zoneinfo
>package.  That not only cured the timezone problem for sendmail,
>but also the kernel logging to syslogd, which was also running under
>the belief it was in the PST zone.

>Simply saying "zic -d GMT" fixed things.
>I like easy solutions like that!


Interesting, it sure beats hacking the source...

Can you tell us what 'zic' does ?  First thing I ever heard of it...

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