On 11/12/12, John Floren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Phineas Pett <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> I'm attempting to setup a native Plan 9 system for the first time, but >> I'm having a bit of trouble getting the timezone to ``stick.'' >> >> Putting the following in my /lib/profile seemed the intuitive and >> correct thing to do: >> >> bind /adm/timezone/US_Central /adm/timezone/local >> >> But it does not work, and I don't understand why. > > I wouldn't expect this to work. According to date(1), > /adm/timezone/local is copied into /env/timezone by init, meaning your > bind comes far too late.
Ah, thanks. The manual has answered a lot of my questions so far, but apparently I need to read more carefully; but still, if I am logged into a remote system in a different time zone, shouldn't my client be able to display client-local time? Is there a mechanism for that? It seems to me that would be a logical benefit of the client having its own view of the namespace.
