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From: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Setting timezone in sendmail 5.61
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.115118.190@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Mar 91 11:51:18 GMT
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In article <352@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au> michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) writes:
>cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) writes:
>
>>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.
[...]
>>Simply saying "zic -d GMT" fixed things.

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

zic is to zoneinfo as tic is to terminfo...
it's the timeZone Info Compiler.

SEE ALSO
    zic(8-BSD)


--dave
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David Osborne