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From: meyer@mimsy.UUCP (John R. Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: XENIX-286 2.2.1 /etc/rc Question
Keywords: TZ and daylight savings, /dev/recover, /etc/rc
Message-ID: <17549@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 23:56:14 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland
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Two questions:

	1)	I currently have my time zone variable set to
		TZ='EST05:00:00EDT04:00:00;M4.1.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/02:00:00'
		as suggested in environ(M).  I have heard that Congress
		moved the days around recently.  Could someone tell me
		what the new daylight savings times are or give me a
		new TZ value?

	2)	Could someone please tell me what /dev/recover is for?
		There are two lines in /etc/rc that say

		tr < /dev/recover > /etc/bootlog
		echo "\000\c" | dd of=/dev/recover bs=10k conv=sync 2> /dev/null

		and I am at a loss to understand why they are there.


					Thanks in advance,

						John

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