[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ env | grep TZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $

Good idea, but no banana.


On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:32:39 +1300, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just found out something interesting whilst fiddling:
> 
> TZ is the local users timezone setting, it can be set different to the
> systemwide default of /etc/localtime. This is so someone logging in from the 
> other side of the world can have their own timezone, via setting
> their TZ variable
> 
> now most people will not have TZ set, as they are logging in to a local
> machine and /etc/localtime will fix it.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ env|grep TZ   (no output, ie TZ is not set, even to 
> null, in my environment)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $date
> Fri Mar  4 09:29:00 NZDT 2005
> 
> BUT if TZ is present in your environment, but set to null, the system
> will give UTC
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ TZ= date
> Thu Mar  3 20:29:51 UTC 2005
> 
> (thats a space after TZ=   , ie set TZ to null.)
> 
> I think you should see if TZ exists in your environment by :
> 
> env|grep TZ
> 
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:07:07 -0500
> Michael Haan wrote:
> 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $ echo $TZ
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] haanm $
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:52:01 +1300, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > what is TZ set to?
> > >
> > > echo $TZ
> > >
> > > this takes preference over the system wide preference set by
> > > /etc/localtime
> > >
> > > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:27:34 -0500
> > > Michael Haan wrote:
> > >
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