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From: jon@wilbur.uucp (Jonathan C. Broome)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: want PST clock not EST in ix/386
Summary: /etc/default/login
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.060431.20818@wilbur.uucp>
Date: 13 Mar 90 06:04:31 GMT
References: <9003092053.AA07364@decwrl.dec.com> <1990Mar10.144953.4013@virtech.uucp> <3022@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: jon@wilbur.UUCP (Jonathan C. Broome)
Organization: Wilbur's Bike Shop, Westlake Village, Ca
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In article <3022@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
: >login .profile, you should place a ". /etc/TIMEZONE".
: Even that shouldn't be necessary, in S5R3.1 and later (maybe even
: S5R3.0), since:
: 	2) "login" - at least in the 3B2 source version of S5R3.1 -
: 	   preserves the value of "TZ".

/bin/login reads the file /etc/default/login, looking for a line starting
with "TIMEZONE=".  If it finds one, it sets TZ=<rest of line>.  Thus, login
will not preserve TZ.   Fix this line to have the correct value, or simply
remove the line altogether.

    ---Jonathan Broome
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