Re: Time??

Joseph Anthony (jga@alien.cowboy.net)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 12:44:30 -0600 (CST)


I used the SystemV timezone file and it fixed it.. for some reason the
main one was using the 1936 time when US central was in EST for that year.

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.
>
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