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Article #44Re: Changing parameters on a 3/60?
From: Duke of Canterbury
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:24
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:24
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guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes: : : Concise, perhaps, but not the best way - and possibly not even the : *right* way. That "cp" is going to trash whatever file happens to be : linked to "localtime", e.g. "US/Pacific"; you can un-trash it, as you've : made a copy of its contents, but why not just do: : : zic -l US/Eastern : : which is mentioned in ZIC(8), although it doesn't sufficiently : forcefully say "*THIS* is the way you change the default time zone from : the command line"... I saw zic, the man page said "time zone compiler", and I thought to myself why would I use a compiler to set the system's time zone? I could see using zic to take a text file and compile it into a timezone-format file, but IMHO the -l switch to zic doesn't make any sense being attached to zic. That would be like saying "use cc to change your MOTD". mike -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ mike bender DOD# 007 for sale: NX-650 & VT110 Shadow 415-863-8913 (home) bender@oobleck.eng.sun.com nothin' witty here 415-336-6353 (work) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!kithrup!hoptoad!pacbell.com!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!appserv.Eng.Sun.COM!oobleck!bender From: bender@oobleck (Duke of Canterbury) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: Changing parameters on a 3/60? Date: 29 Oct 1992 19:24:39 GMT Organization: SPARK's R US Lines: 26 Distribution: usa Message-ID: <lf0ejnINN3sn@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <15200@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Reply-To: bender@oobleck.eng.sun.com NNTP-Posting-Host: oobleck X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3