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From: edb_tom@debet.nhh.no
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: SCO V/386 timezone trouble
Message-ID: <6.25d84e9d@debet.nhh.no>
Date: 13 Feb 90 17:14:53 GMT
Organization: NHH, Bergen, Norway
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Hello!

I'm having a bit of trouble with date and time under SCO Unix V/386... 
We're situated one hour *east* of Greenwich, and I've been trying to
tell the box so for some time.  Running /etc/tz and answering the
questions seems to work at first, as date(1) gives the right output. 
However, in single user mode (state 1) the date output goes back to some
time yesterday morning, and when I run 'ps -f' (in multiuser mode) it
tells me that the ps process itself started exactly 5 hours *into the future*. 
Configuring the kernel variables regarding time doesn't help, which I
hadn't expected anyway since it doesn't take negative displacements.  I
tried telling it we were 1380 minutes west, but it makes no difference.

Did they just forget that some of us don't live in the United States?

Any ideas?

-tih

-- 
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo, NHH, Bergen, Norway.    Telephone:  +47-5-959205
edb_tom@debet.nhh.no, thelbekk@norunit.bitnet, helbekkmo@nhh.uninett