On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:05:39PM +1100, Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote:
> So is the culprit the TZ environment variable?

Maybe;
does
        echo $TZ
        date    
        TZ=Australia/Sydney date
        TZ=Australia/NSW date
        unset TZ; date  

give you the same 3 datetimes?

> tzselect says to add
>        TZ='Australia/Sydney'; export TZ
> to my ~/.profile which I've done.
> But would that be better off in /etc/environment because I would
> prefer to set it system wide?

Sounds right, but I'm afraid I'm not that familiar with Debian.

Matt
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