On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Chandra R. Chegireddy wrote:
> The timezone is still showing EDT and the time is an hour ahead of the
> actual time. What is more puzzling is the same command /sbin/date seems
> to give different outputs depending on where it is called from.
>
> # hostname
> quark
> # /sbin/date
> Mon Oct 28 10:59:32 EDT 1996
> # rsh quark /sbin/date
> Mon Oct 28 09:59:38 EST 1996
>
> This is observed on all 20 of our machines and is not sporadic. Please
> e-mail me directly what could be causing this and any fixes for it. I
> will summarize for the list as soon as possible.
The solution is to look for any environment variables that you may have
set. In our case, it turned out to be TZ which we had set to work around
a bug in an earlier version of netscape related to reloading a HTML
document. Once we remove this setting, the date shows up correctly.
Thanks for the quick response.
Chandra R. Chegireddy Phone: (352)-392-8083
Department of Physics Fax: (352)-392-0524
P.O. Box 118440 (224-C Williamson) E-mail: chandra_at_phys.ufl.edu
University of Florida Pager: (352)-392-2337 No 0029
Gainesville, FL, 32611-8440 Computer Room: (352)-392-9630
Received on Mon Oct 28 1996 - 17:56:07 NZDT