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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!delos!luva!migieger From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) Subject: Re: TimeZone question. Organization: private 386bsd site References: <2c9n3o$ola@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Message-ID: <CGnu19.7E@luva.stgt.sub.org> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 23:46:07 GMT Lines: 22 In article <2c9n3o$ola@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes: >Hi folks, I was wondering...do i have to recompile my kernel again to >get the new timezone be in effect. It seems that everytime I crash my >machine (which happens a lot these days), my timezone is off by an hour. >Am i missing something simple here? Leave your kernel at GMT (``timezone 0'') and use TZ=<your timezone><offset from GMT> w/ your shell (e.g. in middle Europe: TZ=MET-1). This approach has the advantage that you havn`t to recompile the kernel when changing timezone - and the disadvantage that you need a shell which supports the TZ env variable (like bash or tcsh, don't know for others). Bye, Michael. -- ------------------------------+------------------------------ Michael Giegerich | migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org ------------------------------+------------------------------