topic Re: Time Zone in Operating System - HP-UX

Time Zone

Tonatiuh — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:02:02 GMT

HP-UX 11.23

How can I check and modofy the server Time Zone?

The server Time Zone shut be correctly set to Rome, Italy

Re: Time Zone

Tonatiuh — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:06:15 GMT

Please... same for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Re: Time Zone

Dennis Handly — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:08:33 GMT

The server runs on UTC/GMT. If you want to set a local timezone, you need to edit /etc/TIMEZONE and for each user that doesn't want that as a default, they need to set TZ in their ~/.profile.
The list of supported timezones is in /usr/lib/tztab. See tztab(4).

If you don't have DST, you can create your own timezones.

Re: Time Zone

Dennis Handly — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:11:12 GMT

>same for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

This is different, so you should create a new thread in the Linux forum:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/categoryhome.do?categoryId=188

Re: Time Zone

Tonatiuh — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:29:21 GMT

Anyone who knows the timezone that corresponds to Rome, Italy (My server is there but I never has set this parameter for a Rome, Italy server).

Re: Time Zone

Dennis Handly — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:58:24 GMT

>Anyone who knows the timezone that corresponds to Rome

Mr google finds:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=215

It indicates the current timezone is CEST. Try grepping for that in /usr/lib/tztab.
Possibly: CET-1CEST

Re: Time Zone

Matti_Kurkela — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:46:28 GMT

For some reason, HP-UX uses "Middle European" instead of "Central European" in its timezone acronyms, and the DST identifiers for Europe have six letters.

So, for HP-UX, the correct value for /etc/TIMEZONE is "MET-1METDST".

For RedHat 4:
Step 1.)
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Rome /etc/localtime

Step 2.)
edit the ZONE variable in /etc/sysconfig/date so that it says:
ZONE=Europe/Rome

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