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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? I'll probably never be the best in the field... Post 303032072 by samthewildone on Sunday 10th of March 2019 10:06:30 PM
Old 03-10-2019
I'll probably never be the best in the field...

I don't know how to start this but here goes.


I've been "using" Linux for over 10 years, possibly more and I still feel like I'm nowhere

where I should be. I'll be fair most of my time was spent either figuring out how

to run games on *nix at the time but as I got older and "wiser" I started learning
more about it. I do credit my dad for opening up the world of *nix to me as
he was more of a networks type of guy.

Long story short, I was blessed with a job working with Unix systems; Solaris & IBM i series.
I'm able to get tasks from my senior fairly done without much questioning from him I still feel
I'm light years behind, I don't know why but it seems that's so much more than #echo "hello world".

I guess I'm just venting, this is my first sysadmin job ever and, it was a huge jump from
being in tech support for a year and half. A few times I surprised my senior but, I don't know...
feels like I'm missing something.
 

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ZDUMP(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						  ZDUMP(8)

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zdump [--version] [-v] [-c [loyear,]hiyear] [zonename ...] DESCRIPTION
The zdump utility prints the current time in each zonename named on the command line. The following options are available: --version Output version information and exit. -v For each zonename on the command line, print the time at the lowest possible time value, the time one day after the lowest possible time value, the times both one second before and exactly at each detected time discontinuity, the time at one day less than the high- est possible time value, and the time at the highest possible time value, Each line ends with isdst=1 if the given time is Daylight Saving Time or isdst=0 otherwise. -c loyear,hiyear Cut off verbose output near the start of the given year(s). By default, the program cuts off verbose output near the starts of the years -500 and 2500. LIMITATIONS
The -v option may not be used on systems with floating-point time_t values that are neither float nor double. Time discontinuities are found by sampling the results returned by localtime at twelve-hour intervals. This works in all real-world cases; one can construct artificial time zones for which this fails. SEE ALSO
ctime(3), tzfile(5), zic(8) BSD
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