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- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 86 11:22:50 pst
- From: usenix!fair@@sally.UTEXAS.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
-
- I want to amplify what Mark Horton had to say, and also point out one
- more little gotcha in the System III/System V method of timezone
- keeping:
-
- There are quite a few programs that purposely zap the environment for
- security reasons (e.g. uucico, uuxqt, getty, login), which have to be
- modified to pass through TZ (in addition to PATH, LOGNAME, etc.) to
- their children, if you want to get your time stamps right for the zone
- you're in (unless you're lucky enough to be in the default zone, or
- have the unmitigated gall to set the default to your local time zone,
- like AT&T).
-
- In particular, uuxqt has to be fixed because the mail program is
- invoked as a child of uuxqt, and thus inherits uuxqt's environment.
-
- still mad about this nearly two years later,
-
- Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 4
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-