Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!ogccse!sopwith!snoopy From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Date: Can it be specific to a shell?? Message-ID: <310@sopwith.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 02:17:54 GMT References: <72074@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1138@virtech.UUCP> <322@bilver.UUCP> <17@minya.UUCP> Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy) Distribution: usa Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Lines: 16 In article <17@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: |Unfortunately, Berkeley systems haven't generally adopted this approach. |BSD systems still store the timezone in the kernel, and many programs |use the kernel's idea of the timezone regardless of anything in the |user's environment. You want the system to have its own idea of the timezone, for things like uucp. You do not want uucp looking at the user's TZ. _____ /_____\ Snoopy /_______\ cse.ogc.edu!sopwith!snoopy |___| sun!nosun!qiclab!sopwith!snoopy |___| tektronix!tessi!illian!sopwith!snoopy