how to set timezone in BSD

[J. Nelson Howell]

In article <6214 at orca.wv.tek.com> jeff at quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles) writes:
>tr at samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes:
>>How do you set the timezone on a BSD system?  It defaults to Pacific time.
>
>I'll give you a hint:
...
>
>SYNOPSIS
>     date [ -u ] [ -z zone ] [ -d daylight_type ] [
>     [yy]mmddhhmm[.ss] ]
>     [ +format ]

What system does this manual come from?  Not any BSD that I have seen.

>Guess what -z zone does.

It generates a usage message!

	usage: date [-n] [-u] [yymmddhhmm[.ss]]

to be exact.

J. Nelson Howell
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