time zone question again

[navin]

Hello All,
I have tried timezone change on my hpux server 11.23. It is prompting with limited time zone info. I need to select GMT.
How should i do that.Please help
Thanks

[Dave Hutton]

You can use:
#set_parms timezone

To set the timezone.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Forget all that prompting stuff. Unless you have "improved" /etc/profile so that it no longer sources /etc/TIMEZONE, simply edit /etc/TIMEZONE and set
TZ=GMT0
export TZ

Reboot your box and declare victory.


Note that individual users will still be able to set their TZ's to anything they like --- just as they should. A UNIX box might have connections from all over the planet and the time will be displayed correctly. TZ only changes how the time data are displayed not how they are stored which is always epoch seconds (seconds since 00:00:00 1-Jan-1970 UTC).