From: hank@Blimp (Hendrik G. Seliger) Subject: Re: Date command only uses GMT Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1993 13:04:39 GMT
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.
You probably don't have the zoneinfo-files installed, so the system
doesn't know what it's supposed to do with a CST6CDT. Get the
time-binaries and install them, should solve your problems:
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin/timebin.tar.Z
Hank.