SUMMARY: Timezone issues

Thanks to James Sainsbury

The problem was caused by the compiled GMT timezone file not being world
readable changed the permissions on this file and others and all came
good.

-- Original Question -- 
Hi all


I am having a problem where some users on one of my boxes display GMT
when the date command is run while other users on the same box display
the correct timezone (Australia/Sydney) EST when the date command is
run. I have checked the users environment variables they do not have the
TZ variable set in both instaces. 

I am a bit perplexed as to what is going on here.  As the man pages are
not giving awayany clues here


OS: version 5.1a pk6  with updated timezone patch. 

local time zone Australia/Sydney

contents of /etc/svid3_tz 
:Australia/Sydney

localtime -> /etc/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney