Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!gatech!udel!princeton!phoenix!buzz From: buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Time Zone trouble... Message-ID: <2418@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 7 Apr 88 01:23:34 GMT References: <18918@think.UUCP> <7848@apple.Apple.Com> Reply-To: buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian) Organization: Advanced Technology, Princeton University Lines: 48 In article <7848@apple.Apple.Com> jackie@Apple.COM (Hernan'Jackie' Macapanpan) writes: > >Here's an excerpt from the file README from A/UX release 1.0. Hope it helps. > >Time zone handling .... > > The TZ variable is currently being set in a number of A/UX files. > You must edit these files, either removing or changing the setting > of TZ. Edit the following files: /.profile, /.login, /etc/bcheckrc, > /etc/profile, /etc/rc, /etc/sysinitrc, and /users/start/.login. > Included in this posting is a letter I sent myself from faux-pas, our A/UX computer. Notice the Date line in the mail header. Also I have included the output of 'date' and 'grep TZ /etc/*'. From root@faux-pas Wed Apr 6 21:02:25 1988 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 88 18:01:42 PDT From: root@faux-pas (System Operator) To: buzz Subject: Time Zone test Status: R This is what 'date' outputs: Wed Apr 6 21:00:23 EDT 1988 This is what 'grep TZ /etc/*' gave me: bcheckrc:TZ=EST5EDT bcheckrc:export TZ cshrc:setenv TZ EST5EDT profile:TZ=EST5EDT profile:export LOGNAME TZ MAILCHECK MAILPATH rc:TZ=EST5EDT; export TZ rc.orig:TZ=PST8PDT rc.orig:export TZ sysinitrc:TZ=EST5EDT; export TZ These are the files that have occurrences of TZ in them. They all seem correct to me (rc.orig is what rc looked like before I changed it). But as you can see in the mail header, the time is in PDT. This is similar to the messages of 'shutdown' and some other system utilities. Anyone know why? -- Mahboud Zabetian buzz@phoenix.princeton.edu (609) 520-1271 183 Little Hall root@faux-pas.princeton.edu (A/UX!) Princeton U. NJ 08544 <<>>(Was: Need a soon-to-graduate hard/soft-ware engineer?) <<< >>>>>> ( But I'll still consider good offers though :-)