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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

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