date problem

[thebeatlesguru]

boy boy boy
i find a strange problem:
i use root:
# date
Mon Jul 15 04:50:16 EDT 2002

use pin
tsrad22>date Mon Jul 15 16:50:48 EAT 2002

time is different(two date command used within one minute),whats up
i think its impossible hehe

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Guru,

is it possible, that your user "pin" is using a home directory on a different computer using NFS? This would be an answer to your question, if on the other computer a different time zone is used. Or is a different time zone given for your user in /$HOME/.profile or in .dtprofile?

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter

[Patrick Chim]

Hi,

If you set the environment variable TZ to another timezone and type 'date, you will give different datetime also.

Try to 'echo $TZ' at each user level and see
what is the difference.

As you can see the timezone of the date is EDT and EAT.

Regards,
Patrick

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Your problem is related to different timezones being used for two different users.

The 'real' timezone should be set for your system from the /etc/profile file which also refers to /etc/TIMEZONE. If either of these differs to what you standard user is, then one eor the other is wrong. Select the correct timezone for you and update the appropriate files. Have a look at /usr/lib/tztab for more information.

To get each timezone use this command:

$ echo $TZ

Michael

[V. V. Ravi Kumar_1]

hi,

it is difference in the time zone EAT & EDT.
otherwise u can check AM/PM. because for example 4:50 without AM or PM specification is equl to 16:50 PM.

regds
ravi

[Niraj Kumar Verma]

hey !!

try

# telnet 13

see whats the result !!

-Niraj

[Trond Haugen]

Check the $TZ variables for the two users.

Regards,
Trond

[Darrell Allen]

Hi,

"date" uses the TZ environmental variable to format its output. Apparantly one user has $TZ set to something with EDT and the other has EAT. On my systems, EAT does not exist in /usr/lib/tztab. This causes date to use UTC, just the same as using "date -u".

Do "echo $TZ" for each user and compare the results. Also, check for both TZ settings in /usr/lib/tztab. If either isn't found, "date" is using UTC for that even though may display EAT.

Darrell

[thebeatlesguru]

thats right,the root doesnt set the TZ ,now i wanna set it in ENV,and i use:
export TZ=EAT-8

but it dont work next time i login

maybe i should write it in a file ,but which file?

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Please post the output of this from your /etc/profile starting here:

# Set the TIMEZONE

if [ -r /etc/TIMEZONE ]
then
. /etc/TIMEZONE
else
TZ=MST7MDT # change this for local time.
export TZ
fi

and the output of /etc/TIMEZONE file.

[RAC_1]

date is same. Check TZ variable for both users. They have to be different.

Regards,

[Michael Tully]

okay... If they have to be different to the default or global setting do this:

$ export TZ=EAT-8

To make it permanent change directory to users home directory and edit there .profile file and add the same entry as below, and save the file.

export TZ=EAT-8

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[thebeatlesguru]

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