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From: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (8753)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Another stupid time zone question
Message-ID: <189@tness1.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 13:56:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: tness1.189
Posted: Sat May  9 13:56:17 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 09:19:23 EDT
References: <187@tness1.UUCP>
Reply-To: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney 713+521-8753)
Organization: S.W. Bell, Network Engineering, Houston
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Keywords: time zone

In article <187@tness1.UUCP> mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney) writes:
>> 
>> All incoming mail from remote systems bears a
>> EST time stamp (instead of CST that I'm in).
>> Do I have to change tzname in ctime.c and recompile everything?
>> Or is there some easy magic.
>> System: VAX 11/785 S5R2 w/ HoneyDanBer uucp

In article <8705080829.aa06986@SEM.BRL.ARPA> rachiele@nadc.arpa (Jim) replys:

> 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.

I apologize, I should have been more specific.....

The mailer programs ARE converting the time into the correct
time zone for the user. It's the time stamp that uucp generates
that is in question (uucico does not execute /etc/profile at login),
for example:

         From uucp Wed Apr 22 14:18 EST 1987
         >From mechmah Wed Apr 22 13:13 CST 1987 remote from tness3

This is really a stupid concern: Some of the users (upper managers no less)
were complaining that their mail was arriving an hour late. They were
looking at the 1st line that the *mail* program generates, which is
the EST date. They haven't learned to use the sophisticated mailers
yet that strips this. My boss asked me to fix it to CST, and the only
way I see to do it is to recompile all programs that use tzname in ctime.c
(which is set at factory to EST).

I am looking for an easy (but standard) way out.

--
Greg Hackney
UUCP: ihnp4!mechjgh!tness1

Hummingbirds never remember the words to songs.