Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Date: Can it be specific to a shell?? Message-ID: <2511@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 27 Sep 89 18:33:03 GMT References: <72074@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1138@virtech.UUCP> <322@bilver.UUCP> <17@minya.UUCP> <310@sopwith.UUCP> Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Distribution: usa Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 9 >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. The way this can be handled with the Arthur Olson time zone code is to have "uucico" and company ream TZ out of the environment ("uucico" is the only program that has to do this), so that it gets the default time zone; it doesn't require that the kernel have any notion of time zone whatsoever, just that there be a link named "localtime" to the appropriate default time zone file.