changing sys clock (PST to UTC)

OFFSIHR · #1 (**permalink**) 11-22-2006

Hi
I'm trying to change my sys clock from PST to UTC.

I've read the man date page
it helpfully says :-
-u, --utc, --universal
print or set Coordinated Universal Time

as root I have tried date --universal, date -u, date --utc,

I have checked the /etc/sysinfo/clock file the variable HWCLOCK="-u" is set and I've deleted the local time variable settings.

Any ideas why it's not working? What have I forgotten?
Thanks

reborg · #2 (**permalink**) 11-22-2006

to reboot the system?

Perderabo · #3 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

Is this Linux? If so, what distro? Do you really have /etc/sysinfo? Do you have setclock?

OFFSIHR · #4 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

hi sorry for delay in replying

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586) - Kernel 2.6.5-7.191-default

I have /etc/sysconfig and clock but not setclock

The person who set up this sys originally didn't change time to UTC

Prior to reboot I added TZ to .profile, this did change the time to UTC for a non root user account but sys time(from root) is UTC

Thanks for reading this!

OFFSIHR · #5 (**permalink**) 11-23-2006

ok solved it
changed /etc/sysinfo/clock setting to
TIMEZONE="UTC"
DEFAULT_TIMEZONE="UTC"
and rebooted shutdown -r now

sumitpandya · #6 (**permalink**) 11-24-2006

use "dateconfig"

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