Re: [9fans] Attempts to set timezone don't stick?

[Phineas Pett <phineas.pett@gmail.com>]

On 11/12/12, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Phineas Pett <phineas.pett@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I'm attempting to setup a native Plan 9 system for the first time, but
>> I'm having a bit of trouble getting the timezone to ``stick.''
>>
>> Putting the following in my /lib/profile seemed the intuitive and
>> correct thing to do:
>>
>> bind /adm/timezone/US_Central /adm/timezone/local
>>
>> But it does not work, and I don't understand why.
>
> I wouldn't expect this to work. According to date(1),
> /adm/timezone/local is copied into /env/timezone by init, meaning your
> bind comes far too late.

Ah, thanks.  The manual has answered a lot of my questions so far, but
apparently I need to read more carefully; but still, if I am logged
into a remote system in a different time zone, shouldn't my client be
able to display client-local time?  Is there a mechanism for that?  It
seems to me that would be a logical benefit of the client having its
own view of the namespace.