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SubjectRe: Time??
echo "<$TZ>" yielded <>, and the latter still didn't fix it =( this is
also on a redhat box as well as the Debian one.. something is broken some
where.

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> Hi Joseph.
>
> > Thanks.. I have no clue why it does this.. date yeilds CST
> > fingering a local user yeilds CST, every where but mail.. it just
> > mislables -0600 as EST.. I have no idea why.. I run tzconfig and it
> > still does nothing to change it. I will keep researching.. if you
> > find an answer please let me know..
>
> Can you check the output from the following command?
>
> Q> echo "<$TZ>"
>
> If that shows other than <> as output, you have a local environment
> variable that's set to say that you're in the CST timezone, in which
> case you will only see CST times irrespective of what's going on
> elsewhere.
>
> If so, type the following command, then redo your checks...
>
> Q> unset TZ
>
> If that fixes it, you'll need to find out which configuration file
> sets it and get rid of it...
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
> ---
> * ftp://ps.cus.umist.ac.uk/pub/rhw/Linux
> * http://ps.cus.umist.ac.uk/~rhw/kernel.versions.html
>


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