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From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline)
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Subject: setting system time
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:31:44 -0800 (PST)
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  In the unlikely event that anybody else has bumped into 
  the problem of correctly setting the local system time,
  one way is to siimply put the TZ=<LOCALTIME> ; export TZ
  into /etc/rc.

  There may be other, ``more correct'' ways.  But this works.

  gary kline