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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: want PST clock not EST in ix/386
Message-ID: <1990Mar11.231937.15412@virtech.uucp>
Date: 11 Mar 90 23:19:37 GMT
References: <9003092109.AA09255@decwrl.dec.com> <21@usaos.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <21@usaos.UUCP> root@usaos.UUCP (Warren Calhoun) writes:
>In article <9003092109.AA09255@decwrl.dec.com>, paine@fungus.enet.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes:
>>	[question of how to get timezone correct for non-logins deleted]

>As I also run 386/ix, I stopped to do a quick check for you.  When your
>system boots, there should be a line in /etc/inittabs invoking bcheckrc.
>The file /etc/bcheckrc should (among other things) contain the line;
>
>	. /etc/TIMEZONE
>
>...which should contain the lines;
>
>	TZ=EST5EDT (in my case)
>	export TZ
>
>This would alleviate the necessity for any other use of a TZ= line.  It

Placing the TZ stuff into the /etc/TIMEZONE file does in fact solve the 
problem, but it is not because the /etc/bcheckrc file reads the file.  It
is because /etc/init reads the file and processes (places into its 
environment) all the VAR=junk lines.  You could almost say that /etc/TIMEZONE
acts as an 'rc' file for init.

/etc/bcheckrc is just a shell run by init (because of an entry in /etc/inittab)
when entering multi-user mode (leaving single user mode).  Any environment
variables set or changed there will have no effect on the environment
for any other program.

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