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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: want PST clock not EST in ix/386
Message-ID: <3022@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 12 Mar 90 19:28:06 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Instead of placing a TZ= into the /etc/profile, or any individual user's
>login .profile, you should place a ". /etc/TIMEZONE".

Even that shouldn't be necessary, in S5R3.1 and later (maybe even
S5R3.0), since:

	1) as you noted elsewhere, "init" reads "/etc/TIMEZONE" and sets
	   up the environment from it;

	2) "login" - at least in the 3B2 source version of S5R3.1 -
	   preserves the value of "TZ".

If it *is* necessary, somebody screwed up badly.