Bryan posted that TZ is not recommended for long term usage. I agree, but
for short time, it is really useful, as user travel from a place to another
and want to be kept updated with the local time despite the global clock
settings defined using zoneinfo.




On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:48 PM, G. Matthew Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "Cleber Paiva de Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yes, debian and redhat use different files to set the same thing, but
> these
> > are for system wide settings that are/could be different even for other
> > linux flavors (Gentoo uses /etc/conf.d/clock), but in all of them you
> could
> > use the TZ variable to set the timezone for you, in an user wide way.
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for piping in about the objective.  I'm going to leave it as is for
> now.
>
> If anyone thinks that the 'TZ' env variable should be added, please speak
> up
> strongly.
>
> I can add it as an addendum for this quarter.
>
> Regards,
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