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How to set correct timezone and date?

Hi all.
I changed the date to go ahead one hour for DST this past weekend and date command shows:

Code:

 
 
[rcworarpt] /home/oracle>date
Wed Mar 17 12:40:12 EST 2010
 
[rcworarpt] /home/oracle>echo $TZ
Canada/Eastern

I think it should be reading EDT and not EST as My Dataprotector is reporting backups at one hour ahead... The server that Dataprotector runs on is set correctly.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

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you may want to check and modify (IF REQUIRED), the /etc/TIMEZONE file

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TIMEZONE file:

Code:

 
#ident  "@(#)init.dfl   1.6     00/05/27 SMI"
#
# This file is /etc/default/init.  /etc/TIMEZONE is a symlink to this file.
# This file looks like a shell script, but it is not.  To maintain
# compatibility with old versions of /etc/TIMEZONE, some shell constructs
# (i.e., export commands) are allowed in this file, but are ignored.
#
# Lines of this file should be of the form VAR=value, where VAR is one of
# TZ, LANG, CMASK, or any of the LC_* environment variables.
#
TZ=Canada/Eastern
CMASK=022
LC_COLLATE=en_CA.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE=en_CA.ISO8859-1
LC_MESSAGES=C
LC_MONETARY=en_CA.ISO8859-1
LC_NUMERIC=en_CA.ISO8859-1
LC_TIME=en_CA.ISO8859-1

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Which version of Solaris is it ?
If you had provided the date and time zone details correctly during the install, then the system would have automatically moved the time. Unless if its Solaris 8 or old kernel versions of Solaris-9 before 2007.
In that Scenario you will need a DST patch.

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I think you may be right about the DST patch:

Code:

 
[rcworarpt] />uname -a
SunOS rcworarpt 5.9 Generic_112233-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R

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I changed the date to go ahead one hour for DST this past weekend and date command

In general, do not ever change the actual date with the date command, which it sounds like you did, in order to adjust for DST.

I'm guessing your internal system clock is now one hour fast, i.e., UTC-1.

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