Timzone id

[Sonny_8]

My OS is HP-UX 11i

Change timezone id
But When I test with JAVA program to produce the date

from ORCALE suuport
java.text.SimpleDateFormat@e3d1e9c0java.util.SimpleTimeZone[id=Asia/Calcutta,off
set=19800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDaylight=false,startYear=0,startMode=0,startM
onth=0,startDay=0,startDayOfWeek=0,startTime=0,startTimeMode=0,endMode=0,endMont
h=0,endDay=0,endDayOfWeek=0,endTime=0,endTimeMode=0]
03/01/2003 19:39:29 India Standard Time$

SP

java.util.SimpleTimeZone[id=Custom,offset=28800000,dstSavings=3600000,useDayligh
t=false,startYear=0,startMode=
0,startMonth=0,startDay=0,startDayOfWeek=0,startTime=0,startTimeMode=0,endMode=0
,endMonth=0,endDay=0,endDayOfW
eek=0,endTime=0,endTimeMode=0]
03/01/2003 14:38:12 GMT+08:00
Fri Jan 03 14:38:12 GMT+08:00 2003


My Question is How to change TimeZone id=Custom to TimeZone id=Asia/Singapore? I mean the steps to do.
Any Idea or thought would be appreciated

[Rajeev Shukla]

Hi,
If you want to change the time zone on the unix server use the command
/sbin/set_parms timezone
this will display the current time zone and you can change then to whatever you like. Take care you'll have to reboot after that.

Cheers
Rajeev

[Michael Tully]

If you haven't got your TIMEZONE set correctly then you need to fix it using something like 'set_parms' or to try something like this at the top of your script.

# Setting TIMEZONE
if [ -r /etc/TIMEZONE ]
then
. /etc/TIMEZONE
else
PST-8PDT # (Pacific Standard Time)
export TZ
fi

[sycncs]

Besides using setparms, you could also use SAM. Go to SAM -> Time and adjust your settings.

Hope this helps.

[Bill Hassell]

The current timezone is settable for any user on the system by changing the enviroment variable TZ. The set_parms and SAM solution simply set TZ for each user when they login. HP-UX always keeps time internally as GMT or Zulu time but it is displayed and set according to the rules in /usr/lib/tztab (see the man page for tztab) so each user can be in a different timezone and it will look normal if TZ is set to the local timezone.