[PLUG] Setting the time properly

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Sep 12 21:08:13 UTC 2002


On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Galen Seitz wrote:

> Be sure to remove those TZ=... entries from your profile.  It's very
> unusual to be messing with TZ in any of the shell startup files.

Galen,

  I've not seen them there before. Of course, I've not had this timezone
problem before, either.
 
> BTW, the screen went black because the screensaver kicked in due to a 
> big time step.  Whenever you adjust the system time, beware
> of cron funnies.  In past it could get confused when the time was stepped.
> Current versions may not have this problem.  I usually stop and restart
> cron after any system time adjustment.

  Thank you. Noted and done. 

> ps  I was on vacation.  That's why you didn't see the standard kermit
>     response to the serial question.

  Vacation? What's a vacation? Anyway, I covered for you on that one. :-)
Can't let the frog down, can we?

Many thanks,

Rich





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