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From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: want PST clock not EST in ix/386
Message-ID: <4417@sceard.Sceard.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 90 22:52:24 GMT
References: <9003092053.AA07364@decwrl.dec.com> <1990Mar10.144953.4013@virtech.uucp> <3022@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy)
Organization: Sceard Systems, Inc.  San Marcos, CA  92069
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In article <3022@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

 >>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.

Doesn't anybody have users that log into their machines from different
timezones? And that want the timezone they want. I think that EST has,
well, kind of a traditional feel to it. Sort of New Jerseyish, no disrespect
intended.

WRT timezones in general, Unix(tm) does seem to come in more than one
flavo(u)r. What do we expect, standards?

:-)

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