interesting "feature" in 2.3.1

Adri Verhoef ccea3 at rivm.UUCP
Thu Nov 3 00:12:48 AEST 1988


>I noticed a very interesting "FEATURE" in version 2.3.1 of Xenix386. This
>has to do with the time change last Sunday.
>crontab
>Each entry was executed one hour earlier than it was supposed to do so and
>then at the correct time!

Check your timezone variable 'TZ'.
If it reads TZ=XXXsnYYY, then change it to TZ=XXXsn.
We had this same problem happening on NUXI V.2 with TZ=MET-1MET,
occurring in /etc/inittab as:

ev::environ:TZ=MET-1MET

The latter three letters are the 'daylight time zone' and you might not want to
use it any longer as of now.

You may find the setting of TZ in /etc/TIMEZONE or /etc/tz or being referred
to in /etc/profile as in

	. /etc/TIMEZONE



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