topic Re: setting the clock in Operating System - HP-UX

setting the clock

Dan Hoover_1 — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:18:32 GMT

How do I set the clock on HP-UX 11 with the recent time change from DST to EST.

TIA
Dan

Re: setting the clock

HPP — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:21:20 GMT

Edit the file /etc/TIMEZONE and change TIMEZONE to EST5EDT

Re: setting the clock

Rick Garland — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:21:38 GMT

As root, enter the following:
date 200011090930
the year, month, day, hours, minutes.

A reboot is a good idea after this.

Check you TZ variable as well. This will display the time for the time zone you are in.
There is one in the kernel as well.

There are numerous posts regarding the TZ variable. Can do a SEARCH for them

Re: setting the clock

f. halili — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:22:24 GMT

Changing the system time you may use:
# set_parms date_time

This wiil then run a script and will prompt you for the entries.

- fnhalili

Re: setting the clock

HPP — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:23:23 GMT

oops!!!
Change TZ to EST5EDT.

Re: setting the clock

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:39:19 GMT

By the way, make sure that if you are running any databases, you shut them down before you make any changes to the clock (with the date command) I tend to prefer to go to single user mode, then use the date command then reboot into multi-user mode. This is to protect the databases from going into recovery mode