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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time and my 3b2
Message-ID: <505@euraiv1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 13:06:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 13:06:29 1987
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Summary: 3b2 timezone problems with cron

In article <6807@brl-adm.ARPA>, well!lamc!kdavis@lll-crg.arpa writes:
> I have a different 3b2 timezone problem.  When a crontab is run it
> reverts to EST time even though the clock is set for PST.  TZ is
> passed correctly through /etc/password and when logging in as root,
> etc. the date command is correct but when running crontabs it is 3
> hours off.  Anybody tell me what gives?
> 
Hmmm,

this looks like the problem I encountered a couple of months ago; 
by looking at the source I saw that the TZ-environment variable was not
passed on to the process cron fork'ed. I just added TZ to the list of 
var's that were passed (PATH, HOME and SHELL, if I remember correctly) and 
since then things have worked fine around here.
So, if you have source you can do the same (I can send you a diff if you
want me to but as I'm not quite sure about the legal consequences of posting
it, I won't do that now [replies appreciated]) and otherwise start calling 
your local AT&T-support centre.
Anyone knows if this was solved in release 3.0 ?
(we have a 3B2 here running rel.3.0 but I don't have time to try things now)

(configuration: AT&T/Olivetti 3B2/300, 2Mb mem, 32+74Mb disk, System V rel 2.0)

Eelco van Asperen.

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