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Re: Where is GMT=?



On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> All my systems are upgrades of bo to hamm, so I don't have a pure system. 
> 
> I was talking with a client the other day who is having some timezones
> problems. I pointed him at /etc/init.d/boot, only to find out that there
> is no such file on his system, and my system now has something called
> /etc/init.d/boot.OLD.
> 
> There is an hwclock init file that references the GMT variable and sets it
> according to the needs of hwclock, but I can find nothing that sets the
> value initially.
> 
> Where is GMT= set by the booting system?

/etc/default/rcS - Talk about obscure. There should be a pointer in the
hwclock init file if you ask me.

Jason


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