setting the clock

[Dan Hoover_1]

How do I set the clock on HP-UX 11 with the recent time change from DST to EST.

TIA
Dan

[HPP]

Edit the file /etc/TIMEZONE and change TIMEZONE to EST5EDT

[Rick Garland]

As root, enter the following:
date 200011090930
the year, month, day, hours, minutes.

A reboot is a good idea after this.

Check you TZ variable as well. This will display the time for the time zone you are in.
There is one in the kernel as well.

There are numerous posts regarding the TZ variable. Can do a SEARCH for them

[f. halili]

Changing the system time you may use:
# set_parms date_time

This wiil then run a script and will prompt you for the entries.

- fnhalili

[HPP]

oops!!!
Change TZ to EST5EDT.

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

By the way, make sure that if you are running any databases, you shut them down before you make any changes to the clock (with the date command) I tend to prefer to go to single user mode, then use the date command then reboot into multi-user mode. This is to protect the databases from going into recovery mode