Date: Can it be specific to a shell??

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Thu Sep 28 04:33:03 AEST 1989


>You want the system to have its own idea of the timezone, for things
>like uucp.  You do not want uucp looking at the user's TZ.

The way this can be handled with the Arthur Olson time zone code is to
have "uucico" and company ream TZ out of the environment ("uucico" is the
only program that has to do this), so that it gets the default time
zone; it doesn't require that the kernel have any notion of time zone
whatsoever, just that there be a link named "localtime" to the
appropriate default time zone file.



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