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From: jackie@Apple.COM (Hernan'Jackie' Macapanpan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Time Zone trouble...
Message-ID: <7857@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 7 Apr 88 17:16:05 GMT
References: <18918@think.UUCP> <7848@apple.Apple.Com> <2418@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Lines: 25
Summary: Don't forget to link...

In article <2418@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, buzz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mahboud Zabetian) writes:
> 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
> 
> 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?

Ooops, looks like you'd forgotten to link /etc/zoneinfo/EST5EDT to
/etc/zoneinfo/localtime.

Hope this helps.

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