/bin/su - + /bin/sh + long TIMEZONE == big problems on 386/ix 2.0.2

[Ulf Reimann]

greyham at hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes:

>We're having big problems with /bin/sh not accepting our TIMEZONE specification
>under 386/ix 2.0.2. It seems to work OK normally, but when you su to any
>user (yourself even) who has /bin/sh as their shell using "/bin/su -", the
>shell bombs out during startup with the error message:

>> 70/2:00:00,280/2:00:00: is not an identifier

>...

>Anyone got any ideas on how to cope with this?. Is it fixed in 386/ix 2.2?

NO, it's not fixed. I'm having a similar problem with my TZ-setting, which is

TZ=MET-1MDT;78,273