system time and date

[Ragni Singh]

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.

[Helen French]

Hi,

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

HTH,
Shiju

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Sanman

As root run

#set_parms timezone

HTH,
Jeff

[Roger Baptiste]

/sbin/set_parms timezone will do it.


-raj

[John Carr_2]

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

cheers
john.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Sanman,

Thanks - you just gave me my Mortarboard.

Jeff

[Helen French]

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

[Darrell Allen]

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