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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>
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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.


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