[H-GEN] A question of users and time.

[Martin Pool]

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On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Jim wrote:

> Is it possible for two users on the same machine to have different 
> timezones associated with their sessions.

More than possible; it's simple.

Each user must just set the TZ variable to the name of the timezone they
wish to use.  For example:

$ ls -ld .
drwxr-sr-x  165 mbp      mbp         12288 Jun  3 01:29 .
$ date
Sat Jun  3 01:30:14 EST 2000
$ export TZ=Australia/Perth
$ ls -ld .
drwxr-sr-x  165 mbp      mbp         12288 Jun  2 23:29 .
$ date
Fri Jun  2 23:30:30 WST 2000

Unix stores most times as UTC internally, including file times.  You may
wish to use UTC as the default to keep the logs understandable.

> - User A in Brisbane runs on EST
> - User B in Perth runs on WST
> - Machine believes it is whatever.
> 
> I have trawled various man pages and documetation, which all seems to 
> suggest that it is not possible. I just want to either be enlightened or 
> have some confirmation that I can stop searching for an answer.

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