I have NTS server with GMT time ,I want to make this server as a time reference for all unix servers that I have in my network.I knew 'ntpdate' command but what I need is to make the time on unix servers in my country local time which is GMT+3???Any help??
Thanks in advance

Set the timezone on your server. ( /etc/default/init ) Timeservers and time in general are based on GMT so all timeservers use it.

Hello reborg,
so if i set the time zone on unix server and then issued 'ntpdate' command the time will be my country local time...

Thanx

There is no such thing as local time for Unix. Unix kernel internal clock always use universal time a.k.a. UTC a.k.a. GMT. NTP is also using this same unique reference time and do not care about timezone, hopefully.

The time displayed will depend on an environment variable (TZ) and so may vary depending on the user even on a single machine.

With Solaris, the default timezone users will inherit if they do not choose otherwise is defined in the /etc/default/init file TZ variable.

Hello jlliagre,

if I ahve one NTP server and many unix machine and I want to synchrounize time between these servers and make ntp server as a time reference for all servers..How could I achieve this????

Just configure and enable ntp on the clients.

Edit following file and enter the line given below...

# vi /etc/inet/ntp.conf --------------On client machin
server 10.22.17.50 prefer
# svcs -v ntp
# svcadm disable ntp ( For Solaris9: #/etc/init.d/xntpd stop)
# svcadm enable ntp ( For Solaris9: #/etc/init.d/xntpd start)


Whereas 10.22.17.50 is your NTP server.