My question: What is /etc/timezone ? gave the following nice reply from
Dave Miner at Sun. So now we all know.
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>From David.Miner@East.Sun.COM Mon Oct 26 17:03:48 1992
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 11:04:19 EST
From: David.Miner@East.Sun.COM (Dave Miner)
To: ohnielse@oersted.ltf.dth.dk
Subject: Re: What is /etc/timezone ?
It's a source file for the YP map timezone.byname, which is used by the Quick
Configuration software in 4.1.1B and later OS's to automatically configure the
timezone for a system at installation time. Unfortunately, we neglected to get
a manpage into the 4.x releases for it. I've included the one from Solaris 2.
It is also discussed in the Quick Configuration card which comes with new
systems.
Dave
timezone(4) File Formats timezone(4)
NAME
timezone - default timezone data base
SYNOPSIS
/etc/timezone
DESCRIPTION
The timezone file contains information regarding the default
timezone for each host in a domain. Alternatively, a single
default line for the entire domain may be specified. Each
entry has the format:
Timezone-name official-host-or-domain-name
Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or TAB char-
acters. A `#' indicates the beginning of a comment; charac-
ters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by rou-
tines which search the file. The timezone is a pathname
relative to the directory /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo.
This file is not actually referenced by any system software;
it is merely used as a source file to construct the NIS
timezone.byname map. This map is read by the program
/usr/etc/install/sysIDtool to initialize the timezone of the
client system at installation time.
EXAMPLES
Here is a typical line from the /etc/timezone file:
US/Eastern East.Sun.COM #Sun East Coast
FILES
/etc/timezone
Sun Microsystems Last change: 12 May 1992 1
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