Nagios Timezone

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Darren Dunham wrote:

>> Also notice that unless the TZ variable is set in the one-liner containing
>> the call to start Nagios it may have no effect whatsoever.
>>
>> $ TZ=America/Anchorage date
>> Sat Jan  6 00:21:33 AKST 2007
>>
>> $ TZ=America/Anchorage
>> $ date
>> Sat Jan  6 10:27:35 CET 2007
>
> All the one above does is set a shell variable.  Just like any other
> environment variable you really need to make sure it's exported before
> trying to use it.
>
> $ TZ=America/Anchorage
> $ date           # TZ not exported yet
> Mon Jan  8 07:48:52 PST 2007
> $ export TZ      # Now it's visible in the environment
> $ date
> Mon Jan  8 06:48:57 AKST 2007

I know that. But exporting a variable means it will be there for any 
follow-up command as well. And there are some cases where that is not what 
one wants.

Hugo.

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