Re: Where is GMT=?

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> 
> 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.

The mist could be penetrated if only grep had a -R (recurse through
directories) option ;-)

Thanks for the pointer,

Dwarf
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