setting @TM

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:53:57PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Richard D. Williams" wrote:
> > Red Hat Linux 8.0
> > FP 5.0.10D4
> > 
> > I have two applications running on a server in the Central Time Zone.
> > One of the applications services a client in California.
> > The system time is set to Central Time.
> > 
> > Is there a way to adjust or set the @TM to a different timezone than the
> > serve?
> 
> *nix defines a TZ environment variable for just this purpose.  Currently,
> it should be set as "CST6CDT" (or "CST6" if some parts of Indiana), which
> tells the system you're in the Central timezone.  For Pacific, set it to
> "PST8PDT", and everything on the system should show two hours earlier.

Coomonly, if you have a user who normally logs in from a different
timezone, you'd set this in the user's .*profile, to override the
default seting of it, which happens somewhere further upstream.

Cheers,
-- jra
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