[rancid] Re: Changing the time from UTC to NZST or GMT+12

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Mon Jul 24 22:14:38 UTC 2006


cron is a daemon, ie: a long-running process.  if you changed the timezone
and have not restarted it, it still has the TZ that it started with.

[Sorry, but this is not the Unix help list.]

Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:11:26AM +1000, Murphy, Barry (Barry):
> The system is reflecting the correct time:
> 
> root at Rancid # date
> Tue Jul 25 10:10:45 NZST 2006
> 
> Barry
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 10:10 a.m.
> To: Murphy, Barry (Barry)
> Cc: Rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Changing the time from UTC to NZST or GMT+12
> 
> 
> Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:03:16AM +1000, Murphy, Barry (Barry):
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > My rancid seems to be using UTC time and I'd like to modify it to NZST or
> > GMT+12 (NZ) but can't find any documentation on this.
> > Could anyone provide assistance here?
> 
> rancid would inherit TZ from the system &/ cron.



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