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Date:      Thu, 13 May 1999 17:54:48 +1000
From:      Jim Mock <jim@blues.ghis.net>
To:        Opec Kemp <opec@wtfrc.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Time Zone
Message-ID:  <19990513175448.A60260@blues.ghis.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990513074539.MGIC7471167.mta1-rme@wocker>
References:  <373B0481.72F96F06@wtfrc.com> <19990513074539.MGIC7471167.mta1-rme@wocker>

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On Thu, 13 May 1999 at 19:43:27 +1200, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 13 May 99, at 16:57, Opec Kemp wrote:
[snip..]
> > Is it possible to set the time zone any otherway ie from the
> > command line. The problem I;m having is that the DB i'm using
> > (MySQL) reports a wrong time. So, from the Doco it said to set the
> > timezone variables when I run the DB server. Is there an 
> > environmental variables that I can set?. In Linux it is TZ but,
> > I'm new to FreeBSD  and I have tried to do the same but it has no
> > effect.

It's TZ.  Read the date(1) and environ(7) to get the format and more
info.

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