tztab problem

[Maxim Rozin]

im trying to set the timezone with the tztab file.
my $TZ is set to IST-2IDT and in my tztab there is only 2 lines
IST-2IDT
#0 11 28 03 2005 0-6 IDT-3
according to this tztab the line should not work because it is commented but when i do date the output is 14:00 IDT
why is it?? i think its suppose to be IST

thnx,

[Jdamian]

IST ?

What time zone is it ?
In my boxes that time zone is not in the /usr/lib/tztab file.

[Amit Agarwal_1]

IST=India Standard Time

Maxim,
check the /etc/TIMEZONE file.

[Victor Fridyev]

Maxim,

Please check the following files:
/etc/TIMEZONE and /usr/lib/tztab
/etc/TIMEZONE should contain:
TZ=IST-2IDT
export TZ

tztab should contain the following:
0 2 01 4 2005 0-6 IDT-3
0 2 09 10 2005 0-6 IST-2

HTH