topic timezones in Operating System - HP-UX

timezones

Emma_8 — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:24:23 GMT

Hi folks

Not sure if this is the right forum but I need to use the Hawaii timezone for an application running on an N4000 server with HP-UX 11.0. From sites I've looked at the hawaii TZ seems to be HST10 but when I looked in /usr/lib/tztab the closest I see is AST and this also has a daylight savings setting. I do know that Hawaii do not use daylight savings so anyone have any idea what TZ setting I should be using in my app ?

Thanks a mil
Emam

Re: timezones

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:45:12 GMT

AST10 might do the job.

Thats Aluetion Standard time, but it seems to have the saem offset from GMT as Hawaii does. Since its standard, there should be no adjudtment as you say Hawaii doesn't need that.

Also, I'd recommend ntp to keep your boxes in synch with atomic clocks. The last thing you need with multiple time zones using a box is the clock being off.

SEP

Re: timezones

c_51 — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:46:28 GMT

HST10

Re: timezones

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:50:44 GMT

You are making this too hard. It is not necessary that there be a matching tztab entry. If none is found no DST shift will occur; simply set and export TZ=HST10 in /etc/TIMEZONE or in the appropriate .profile's and you are done.

Re: timezones

Emma_8 — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:04:41 GMT

Hi folks

Thanks for your responses. We do have NTP on the box so no worries there.

I will use export HST10 and see how that works for me.

Thanks again
Emma