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From: guy@gorodish.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time and my 3b2
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Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 20:54:08 EST
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>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

I presume you mean "through '/etc/profile'" here.  More correctly, it
is passed correctly when a user's login shell is "/bin/sh".  However,
if you have a user whose login shell is, say, some specialized
application, or "/usr/lib/uucp/uucico", or "/bin/csh", it won't get
passed correctly.

>but when running crontabs it is 3 hours off.

TZ probably wasn't set correctly in the "/etc/rc" script or whichever
such script started "cron" up.  You have to make sure it's set at the
beginning of "/etc/rc", "/etc/brc", etc., etc..

This, and the problem listed above, are reasons why if a system
requires TZ to be set for every process "/etc/init" should set it.