My concern would be that you might have the time being written as each process perceives it and there could be a mismatch, eg.
If you have a busy and common application log, this could make quite a mess. An alternate worry might be if an application does it's own logging within a database. We have to switch of NTP for one of these when it kept complaining that the clock had moved back.
Not that these are necessarily a problem in your case, just something to consider. I must say I'm left to wonder why you would want to make such a change without a boot? Is it so hard to find a window to boot in?
My previous answer is incorrect. I just looked at the localtime source code and noticed the time zone definitions are loaded only once and stored in a cache.
That means an altered timezone will only be taken into account by new processes but not by those already running.
I would then agree with rbatte1 and suggest the operation be followed by a reboot to make sure all processes, including init are in sync.
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If I compare with ESXi default timezone is UTC and we have to set BIOS timezone to UTC too .
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Hi all,
I faced with some problem when I changing java timezone on RHEL 5. I used tzupdater.jar tool from oracle to update java timezone. But I missed stopping applications before I run tzupdater tool. So some applications working with wrong timezone.
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Dear,
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Hello everyone,
Can you please help me with this problem?
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2- restart the system : init 6
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Is that zone will properly shuts down;
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may aix version is 6100-06-03-1048
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root@cbspsgui01 #date
Fri Sep 16 08:43:42 Africa/Johannesburg 2011
I want to change the time zone to GMT +02:00:
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Hi,
I would like to change time zone Linux from IST to US/Canada but not getting the option , I have run the command setup -> timezone configuration but not getting the option of us/canada or pacific us/canada.
Please suggest.
Regards,
Manoj (1 Reply)
Hi,
Can anybody tell me how to change time zone from ist to bst,
What changes should be done in /etc/TIMEZONE file.
wheather it is possible to change timezone without rebooting the server.
Regards
Manoj (1 Reply)
I've date back one of my Unix WS ,after that again i want to return to real date,but after running:
# date -u mmddHHMMyy
the clock immediately returns to GMT timezone that is different with my local timezone.
any suggestion could be useful...
tanx
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