topic Re: system time and date in Operating System - HP-UX

system time and date

Ragni Singh — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:25:20 GMT

hey everyone,

how do I set up the time so it shows pacific standard time and not MST on my system. Any help will be greatly appreciated and points wil be given.

Re: system time and date

Helen French — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:29:15 GMT

Hi,

You can set it through date command. See man date for more details.

HTH,
Shiju

Re: system time and date

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:29:31 GMT

Hi Sanman

As root run

#set_parms timezone

HTH,
Jeff

Re: system time and date

Roger Baptiste — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:35:10 GMT

/sbin/set_parms timezone will do it.

-raj

Re: system time and date

John Carr_2 — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:35:28 GMT

set_parms timezone is what you need , date is based on the TZ environment variable checkout environ TZ too.

cheers
john.

Re: system time and date

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:36:45 GMT

Hi Sanman,

Thanks - you just gave me my Mortarboard.

Jeff

Re: system time and date

Helen French — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:40:15 GMT

Hi,

I should have read the question correctly ! You can set this value in the 'TZ' environmental varibale. Do 'env' and find out the current set vale. Check /etc/profile for exported values.

Also you can do it through set_parms

HTH,
Shiju

Re: system time and date

Darrell Allen — Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:52:22 GMT

Hi Sanman,

If you want everyone to see the same timezone (unless their TZ environmental variable is changed), you can run set_parms timezone. This will change /etc/TIMEZONE which is checked by the standard /etc/profile to set TZ.

Of course, you could simply edit /etc/TIMEZONE. And you should verify /etc/profile is actually setting TZ.

Last, if you have users in different timezones, you may want to edit their .profiles or do some other scripting in /etc/profile to set TZ for their location.

Darrell