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From: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Brian Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Changing the timezone
Keywords: /com/tz, timezone,
Message-ID: <2249@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 14 Aug 88 10:18:22 GMT
References: <3d8a1969.d5b2@apollo.COM>
Reply-To: martin@medix.UUCP (Brian K. Martin, M.D.)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <3d8a1969.d5b2@apollo.COM> oj@canyon.UUCP (Ellis Oliver Jones) writes:
>Somebody (I think either mcdonald@loki or maybe Jim Rees, wrote)
>>The timezone is a little trickier.  It's stored in a completely separate
>>way.  Unfortunately, I think you still need to shut down to change the
>>timezone, even at sr10.
>
>Just say   $ /com/tz edt    or $ /com/tz pst  or whatevr, online.
>No shutdown required.

Except the Apollo doesn't know about Hawaii Standard Time.  Depending
on the season, we are either 5 or 6 hours earlier than the east coast,
or GMT-10 hours. After much trial and error, I discovered an environment
variable that can be set in the node startup file which correctly
implements Hawaii Standard Time.

--Brian

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