want PST clock not EST in ix/386

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Fri Mar 16 05:32:03 AEST 1990


>Doesn't anybody have users that log into their machines from different
>timezones? And that want the timezone they want.

Yup, they can just set TZ in their own ".profile"/".login" files, if the
system default isn't appropriate.

>WRT timezones in general, Unix(tm) does seem to come in more than one
>flavo(u)r. What do we expect, standards?

Yup.  I expect the Arthur Olson code to be the standard within a few
years, since both System V Release 4 and 4.3-tahoe support it....



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