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Old 12-19-2007
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Question change country in date command
Currently date command is showing following output

Code:
(ibm)jhamay:/home/jhamay->date
Wed Dec 19 14:19:25 PAKST 2007
I want to change PAKST to IST. I have searched through man pages but didn't find any relevant things.could you all please help me out.
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You have to change the timezone, which is stored in the variable TZ.

export TZ=IST[....]

Alas, i do not know of a predefined timezone called "IST", so you will have to contruct your own and call that "IST".

I hope this helps.

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What OS (type/version of unix or AIX) are you using?

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export TZ=ISTIMDT-5:30
Would be for the time in Mumbai.

If you want this to be system-wide (for all users) you will have to change something depending on your OS, probably put the TZ statement above into /etc/TIMEZONE
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What OS (type/version of unix or AIX) are you using?
Sorry to interrupt you, Jim, but this is the AIX forum and in AIX the version/release is - for this problem - irrelevant. The procedure hasn't changed since at least version 3.2.5 (which was back in the early nineties).

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If you want this to be system-wide (for all users) you will have to change something depending on your OS, probably put the TZ statement above into /etc/TIMEZONE
In AIX you have to put it into /etc/environment or use SMITty, which does that for you.

You might want to read this post for an explanation of how to contruct your timezone variable.
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my bad, but the recent versions of AIX are supposedly POSIXly-compliant, and that construction of a TZ variable is POSIX.
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