[6154] in Kerberos
Re: Why TELNET sends arbitrary environment variables at all?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Davis)
Tue Nov 7 17:47:42 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 7 Nov 1995 22:27:15 GMT
From: ckd@loiosh.kei.com (Christopher Davis)
PdS> == Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com>
PdS> What does *my* TZ have to do with that of a system I'm telnetting
PdS> to, anywhere in the world?
It makes your login environment run in your timezone. This is useful,
since it means that (among other things) ls will reflect that timezone in
file listings.
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