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by **Casper H.S. D** » Wed, 27 Apr 1994 17:12:37

>I have access to two SPARCstation LXs, one (a) running Solaris 2.1 and
>the other (b) running 2.3. A date command on either machine gives me the
>local (ie, NZ) date. However, there are differences in the rsh
>behaviour. An rsh from LXa to LXb gives me a local date, but an rsh from
>LXb to LXa gives me a GMT date. Why? Both machines have /etc/TIMEZONE
>with TZ set to NZ, but it seems that the TZ environment variable is not
>set for an rsh on the Solaris 2.1 machine.

Indeed. That was a bug in 2.1 and the bug was fixed in 2.2 or 2.3

Upgrading is the only way out.

Casper

by **srln..** » Wed, 27 Apr 1994 09:23:52

I have access to two SPARCstation LXs, one (a) running Solaris 2.1 and
the other (b) running 2.3. A date command on either machine gives me the
local (ie, NZ) date. However, there are differences in the rsh
behaviour. An rsh from LXa to LXb gives me a local date, but an rsh from
LXb to LXa gives me a GMT date. Why? Both machines have /etc/TIMEZONE
with TZ set to NZ, but it seems that the TZ environment variable is not
set for an rsh on the Solaris 2.1 machine.

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Timezone and rsh - 2.1 vs 2.3

Timezone and rsh - 2.1 vs 2.3

Timezone and rsh - 2.1 vs 2.3