Iceland Timezone

[Jeff Grant_2]

What timezone does HPUX use for Iceland? I can't seem to find it in the /usr/lib/tztab or anywhere else for that matter.
What would the command line be for setting the timezone?

[Jim Mallett]

Try:

/sbin/set_parms timezone

Select Europe (which is selection 4 for me)
Then you'll see Iceland (selection 5 for me)

The actual setting in /etc/TIMEZONE is something like: IST1

HTH...Jim

[Jeff Grant_2]

Thanks Jim! It didn't occur to me that Iceland might be in Europe and not in North America. D'oh!!

[Bill Hassell]

The other solution is that unless you need some complicated daylight saving rules, you can just make up your own timezone value. All time in HP-UX is kept in GMT (or Zulu or UTC) so your local tme would be -4 hours from GMT. According to the environ man page, you can makeup any 3+ character string for your timezone (like ICE) and follow that with the number of hours needed to equal GMT, so TZ=ICE4 will set your local time correctly. You can refine your TZ value using the rules in environ, or add your own custom values to /usr/lib/tztab (man 4 tztab).