Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:06:56 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@alcnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proper way to set TZ? Message-ID: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9903180902360.26476-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903171204240.37026-100000@kronos.alcnet.com>
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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Kelly Yancey wrote:
>
> I have a couple of scripts which rely on TZ being set to the server's
> time zone. What is the proper was to do this so I don't have to put a
> TZ=EST; export TZ before invoking any of the scripts.
> Is there a startup script that this should be in? If so, which one?
TZ is a SysV mechanism. What are you trying to do, exactly? If you
really want to get it, I suppose one way of doing it is to get the
output of:
date '+%Z'
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