Timezone in SA - JNB

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi all

I have a query regarding the time in JNB

According to references the time in JNB should be GMT+2 hrs Therefore local time is now 18:40ish

If I have a look on the server

date and date -u

:/ # date
Tue Aug 6 19:09:01 SADT 2002
:/ # date -u
Tue Aug 6 16:09:39 UTC 2002

I have checked this on a server I am working on at the moment and chnaged the timezone as per and it's the same, local time is UTC+3hrs as opposed to 2hrs

The /etc/TIMEZONE file is

TZ=SAST-2SADT
export TZ

Any ideas as per why the universal time is incorrect ?

Thanks in advance

Steve

[steven Burgess_2]

Sorry

current time

:/ # date
Tue Aug 6 18:48:08 SADT 2002
:/ # date -u
Tue Aug 6 15:48:17 UTC 2002

Steve

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi

JNB = Johannesburg - South Africa

Any ideas ?

Thanks

Steve

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

Well I do know there used to be an issue with SA Time as the US always set TZTAB up with the SAST-2SADT whcih assumes SA uses Daylight Savings time;-}

You need to change the TZ from SAST-2SADT to SAST-2

This has been fixed in 11i by the way

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Steve,

Here's one of our servers in Jo'burg (OS=10.20):

jo1p6p-1 # date
Wed Aug 7 09:44:30 SAST 2002
jo1p6p-2 # date -u
Wed Aug 7 07:44:39 UTC 2002
jo1p6p-3 # grep SAST /etc/TI*
/etc/TIMEZONE:TZ=SAST-2

Rgds, Robin.

[Carlo Henrico_1]

Steve

As mentioned by the others, /etc/TIMEZONE should reflect TZ=SAST-2, but also check your kernel parameters namely the dst setting to "0".

If you ever go to a customer in Namibia however who theoretically are also SAST-2SADT, good luck - give me a call. Their daylight savings time does not conform to any known standard!

Cheers

Carlo

[Trond Haugen]

Carlo
The kernel parameters dst and timezone are not used by the date command. In fact they are only used by some old system calls that are rarely used anymore. The two system calls are gettimeofday(2) and ftime(2).

Regards,
Trond

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi guys

Thanks for the replies. SA do not use daylight saving

Melvyn. I changed the timezone on an 11i server I am building at the moment and found the setting also to be incorrect

Regards

Steve