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From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How to set the time zone on a NeXT (under 0.8 at least)
Summary: some may need to set DST flag
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Date: 10 Feb 89 17:06:54 GMT
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I neglected to mention that it may also be necessary to teach the kernel
about daylight savings time when setting minutesWest.  For those in Illinois,
for example,

	date -t 360 -d 1

would be the correct invocation.

Apparently sendmail is based on the standard, Berkeley distribution, which
uses the ftime() and timezone() functions to derive the time zone.  Other
programs that use tzset() and localtime() will use the zone information of
the TZ environment variable and/or the file /etc/zoneinfo/localtime.

So, you must make sure that you have the minutesWest and DST values set
properly in the kernel and that you have /etc/zoneinfo/localtime linked to
the correct time zone file in /etc/zoneinfo.