From: Fergus James HENDERSON (fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU)
Date: 10/26/92 

From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
Subject: Daylight savings timezone (Australia/Victoria)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 18:37:27 GMT

To set up my timezone, I did
        cd /usr/lib/zoneinfo
        cp Australia/Victoria localtime
        ln -s localtime posixrules

The problem is that if I don't set the TZ environment variable, the system
reports my current time zone as "EST" instead of "EDT".

There are easy ways to work around the problem (eg. setting TZ=EST14EDT
seems to work), but I wondered if anyone new the actual cause of the
problem. 

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