Changing the TimeZone

[Slayer Slayer]

Hello All,

Next week i will have to change the TimeZone in our Tru64 4.0G.
I need to put in hour ahead.
How do i do that ?


TIA

Regards

Bruno

[Victor Semaska_3]

If you set it up properly when you installed the OS, it should change automatically for you.

To see which timezone you have selected on your system:

# ls -l /etc/zoneinfo/localtime

It should be a symbolic link to the appropriate zone.

I live in the Northeastern US so for my system it's:

localtime -> ./US/Eastern

For you, it should be something like:

localtime -> ./Brazil/Acre|DeNoronha|East|West

Vic

[Slayer Slayer]

Hey man thanks for the response.

But let´s suppose, the last admim that was here did not set up the OS properly.

How do i know if the OS will do that automatically.
If the Timezone does not change automamtically how do i set up it Manually ?


Thanks a lot

Regards

Brun

[Han Pilmeyer]

What Vic described above tells you what the system wide default for the timezone is. There are ways to override this, even on a per process basis (e.g. using the TZ environment variable).

If you're afraid that the timezone defined by the operating system is not correct or you'd just like to see what the definition is, then the sources for the timezone definitions can be found in /etc/zoneinfo/sources.

You could customize those if you desire (see the "zic" command), but that should not be necessary.

Also see man pages like: zoneinfo, tzset, zic, etc.