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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

8976.0. "How to change time zone?" by LABC::RU () Wed Feb 26 1997 13:17

    
    My customer like to change the time zone on system.
    Is there any command to do that?  Also how to change
    the day light saving to none?
    
    Thanks
    
    Jason

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
8976.1		ZEKE::ranger.zko.dec.com::dilsworth	Keith Dilsworth	`Wed Feb 26 1997 14:01`	1
	/usr/sbin/timezone
8976.2		LABC::RU		`Wed Feb 26 1997 14:33`	7
	I ran timezone as root. Change it to Central Time, but the 'date' still shows the original timezone. Reboot doesn't change anything. Seems to me 'timezone' doesn't work. Any suggestions? Jason
8976.3	man 3 timezone	NETRIX::"[email protected]"	Brian Haley	`Wed Feb 26 1997 15:58`	18
	Hi, The timezone (8) page I believe is for System V. You really want to look at tht timezone (3) man page. Basically it will tell you to change the soft link in /etc/zoneinfo. An excerpt: Setting Timezone Information The /etc/zoneinfo/localtime link can be changed by the system administrator to any file in the /etc/zoneinfo directory. For example, to change the default system timezone to Canada's Atlantic time zone, enter the following as superuser: # ln -s /etc/zoneinfo/Canada/Atlantic /etc/zoneinfo/localtime -Brian [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
8976.4	Specifically...	QUARRY::reeves	Jon Reeves, UNIX compiler group	`Thu Feb 27 1997 12:31`	2
	Given the questions you're asking, you might find the US/East-Indiana timezone useful. See /etc/zoneinfo/source/northamerica for details.
8976.5	East-Indiana defined	INDYX::ram	Ram Rao, PBPGINFWMY	`Fri Feb 28 1997 12:13`	10
	> Given the questions you're asking, you might find the US/East-Indiana timezone > useful. See /etc/zoneinfo/source/northamerica for details. The main "feature" of the US/East-Indiana timezone is that it observes Eastern Standard Time year-round (does not switch to/from Daylight time). Ram Rao (who lives in the US/East-Indiana timezone, and has his ULTRIX and Digital UNIX systems configured accordingly)