topic Re: TimeZone in Operating System - HP-UX

TimeZone

C.I.S — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:20:17 GMT

How can I set my timezone if it's not listed in /usr/lib/tztab? Knowing that my location is +2H GMT.
Does the time zone abbreviation matter in this case, i.e abc+2 is the same as abc2 or xyz+2?

Re: TimeZone

Roger Baptiste — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:33:22 GMT

>

If your time is always 2 hours ahead of
GMT, then you do not need an entry in tztab.
Just modify /etc/TIMEZONE to read
TZ=GMT+2; export TZ

The abbreviation is an equation to calculate
the timezone. So, in that respect it matters.

HTH
raj

Re: TimeZone

James Beamish-White — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:34:09 GMT

Why don't you find the closest timezone to yours and set it to that?

Regards,
James

Re: TimeZone

C.I.S — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:36:52 GMT

I mean in my case abc+2 and xyz+2 differ? or the +2 that counts only?

Re: TimeZone

John Bolene — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:41:33 GMT

for +2 TZ, you would be in Central Europe

use CET-2CDT

Re: TimeZone

G. Vrijhoeven — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:43:34 GMT

Hi,

check out man tztab, put the time zone you like te use in /etc/TIMEZONE and export it:

cat /etc/TIMEZONE
TZ=MET-1METDST
export TZ

Good luck,

Gidoen

Re: TimeZone

John Bolene — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:46:47 GMT

Got the wrong one also

for +2 TZ, you would be in Eastern Europe

use EET-2EEST

Re: TimeZone

C.I.S — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:57:55 GMT

tz=GMT+2 gives me a 2hours before GMT...what's wrong?
TZ=GMT-2 gives me the rite time

Re: TimeZone

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:12:09 GMT

Hi:

Using a "+" offset means you are west of the Prime Meridian. Using a "-" offset means you are east. You should, ideallly, choose a value in /usr/lib/tztab that matches your home. You can test your TZ declaration by simply doing this:

# TZ=XXX+5 date
...or...
# TZ=XXX-5 date

If you use something like XXX5 you will see that this is the same as specifying the format as XXX+5. As you can also see, there is no magic in naming the timezone. Here, "XXX" would be its name -- not too informative, though.

Regards!

...JRF...