set European Time on US HP-UX Box

[panchpan]

Hello.
I have an environment file. All the shell scripts of my application gets executed after reading environment file. The application is installed on US HP-UX box i.e. CST timings. Is there any way or command by which I could run all the shells in CET timings instead of system time (CST)?

Thank you!

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Set the TZ variable to CET.


Pete

[Yang Qin_1]

You can try to setup TZ:

export TZ=CET

Yang

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If you want your server to use the CET timezone for every process, run:

# /sbin/set_parms timezone

...and follow the menu to choose the timezone you want.

If you have an environment file that all of your scripts source (read), then all you need to is:

# export TZ=CET

Regards!

...JRF...

[spex]

Hi,

If you are running the scripts through cron:

1) In /etc/TIMEZONE, change "TZ=CST" to "TZ=CET".
2) Restart cron:
/sbin/init.d/cron stop
/sbin/init.d/cron start

Note that changing $TZ does not actually adjust the system clock, it merely changes the local representation of UTC time.

PCS

[panchpan]

Hello.
I feel export TZ=CET is a good solution. But would it work fine in day/light saving also, I tried to test it . But does not seem to work fine. See below:

$ date
Tue Oct 31 14:23:55 MET 2006
$ date -u
Tue Oct 31 13:23:59 UTC 2006
$ export TZ=CST
$ date
Tue Oct 31 13:24:10 CST 2006
$ export TZ=UTC
$ date
Tue Oct 31 13:24:31 UTC 2006
$ export TZ=CET
$ date
Tue Oct 31 13:24:39 CET 2006
$ unset TZ
$ echo $TZ

$ date
Tue Oct 31 08:25:06 EST 2006
$ export TZ=CET+1
$ date
Tue Oct 31 12:25:40 CET 2006
$


Thank you.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

This works:

# TZ=CET date
Tue Oct 31 13:34:16 CET 2006
# TZ=CET1CDT date
Tue Oct 31 12:34:21 CET 2006
# TZ=CET1 date
Tue Oct 31 12:34:26 CET 2006
# TZ=CET-1 date
Tue Oct 31 14:34:32 CET 2006

You can set the TZ variable only for the duration of the command by setting the variable to a value, following that with a whitespace and the command on the same line.

Regards!

...JRF...

[spex]

Hi,

$ more /usr/lib/tztab
$ export TZ=CST6CDT
$ date
$ export TZ=MET-1METDST
$ date

PCS