From: jmorriso@rflab.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) Subject: Re: Date command only uses GMT Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 08:50:46 GMT
In article <1pdm69INNsnp@crcnis1.unl.edu> jbettis@cse.unl.edu (Jeremy Bettis) writes:
>I have been unable to get the date command to display the correct timezone.
>I edited the /etc/login.defs file and set the ENV_TZ variable. Now TZ is set
>to CST6CDT like it ought to be but date still prints out GMT, if I change TZ
>while logged in, date still prints GMT. It is local time, but reported as
>GMT. I am running .99pl6 of SLS 7 Mar 93. I have not seen any mention of
>this problem with the date command in the last month in this newsgroup. Now
>I could live with an incorrect timezone on my system, but I don't think that
>USENET news can.
arrrg!! dont use TZ.
you should go into /usr/lib/zoneinfo and make a link from your timezone
to localtime (and posixwhatever....). there's a readme in the directory,
but you probably want to do: ln -sf US/Central localtime
Mountain(?)
then make sure clock -s sets the clock properly at boot time.
use clock -s if your clock is set to localtime, or clock -s -u if your
clock is on GMT. if you use GMT, daylight savings time will get handled
better.
>--
>Jeremy Bettis -*- Jerbo Jehoshaphat -*- University of Nebraska
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