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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: stupid time zone question
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 16:47:29 EDT
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> On system V machines, to get the time zone to come up right all you have
> to do is properly set the TZ parameter.  The file /etc/profile is executed
> when every user logs in, so this is the normal place to do it.

This makes a couple of unwarranted assumptions:

	1) Every process on the system is run as the result of a
	   login or from an "rc" file that had TZ set in it.

	2) Every account on your machine has "/bin/sh" or the Korn shell
	   as its login shell.

There are several fairly obvious (except, perhaps, to the genius at
AT&T who came up with the TZ scheme and didn't arrange to have "init"
set TZ) exceptions to 2): accounts running some special application
and accounts running - yup - "uucico".  Now, consider that incoming
mail often arrives via UUCP....

Now, maybe HoneyDanBer has some stuff to arrange to set TZ in the
absence of an adequate "init"; the S5R3 one doesn't, but S5R3 finally
has an adequate "init" that sets TZ.