Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:21:12 -0600 (EST) | From | Joseph Anthony <> | Subject | Re: Time?? |
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I believe it is the localtime/zoneinfo (UScentral CST6CDT) file is screwed up.. central time is screwed up for glibc..
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Joseph. > > > echo "<$TZ>" yielded <>, and the latter still didn't fix it =( this > > is also on a redhat box as well as the Debian one.. something is > > broken some where. > > OK, the other reasonably obvious possibility is to turn that on its > head - is TZ set for the sendmail daemon that's started automagically > in your boot scripts ??? > > To check this on the RedHat system, look in /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail > for any lines of the form "export TZ=??T" and, if they're found, kill > them. When you've done that, find the line that begins "start)" and > insert immediately after it the following line: > > echo "*** Sendmail Timezone = <$TZ>" >&2 > > When you've done that and saved the file, reboot and watch the boot-up > messages to see what appears - it will NOT appear in dmesg as far as > I'm aware... > > >>> Thanks.. I have no clue why it does this.. date yeilds CST > >>> fingering a local user yeilds CST, every where but mail.. it just > >>> mislables -0600 as EST.. I have no idea why.. I run tzconfig and it > >>> still does nothing to change it. I will keep researching.. if you > >>> find an answer please let me know.. > > >> Can you check the output from the following command? > > >> Q> echo "<$TZ>" > > >> If that shows other than <> as output, you have a local environment > >> variable that's set to say that you're in the CST timezone, in which > >> case you will only see CST times irrespective of what's going on > >> elsewhere. > > >> If so, type the following command, then redo your checks... > > >> Q> unset TZ > > >> If that fixes it, you'll need to find out which configuration file > >> sets it and get rid of it... > > Best wishes from Riley. > > --- > * ftp://ps.cus.umist.ac.uk/pub/rhw/Linux > * http://ps.cus.umist.ac.uk/~rhw/kernel.versions.html >
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