My original posting was:
>Hi all,
>
>I have a vendor onsite who is working on our Year 2000 version of an
>application we run. In the past this vendor has had it's own timezone
>calculation. When we have daylight savings (summer time) we need to
>manually
>edit the file and restart the system.
>
>With the new version they tell me they use the /etc/TIMEZONE file. I have
>seen this file on my systems but it has no content anywhere.
>
>My question is, does anybody know how to use this file, is it automatic at
>summer time change over and stuff like that.
Well, Not much luck unfortunately. Thanks to the following respondents:
Ian Mortimer
Jim Smart
Hugh Pritchard
Dejan Muhamedagic
While each person was able to show me something about the timezoning that I
didn't know, nobody has been able to answer the exact question. It has been
pointed out that this file exists empty on DU systems and is called from
/etc/profile.
According to my third party developer, they say the content of the file
should be:
> TZ=EST-11
> export TZ
>
They assure me this will change automatically at daylight savings time.
Does anybody else on this list use this file?
Do any of the Digital/Compaq employees on the list have any idea?
There does not appear to be any documentation for this file. Can anybody
help please.
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Received on Thu Aug 27 1998 - 23:43:54 NZST